Considering the prevalence of cloud environments, it’s possible that denial-of-service attacks could shift, at least a bit, to this denial-of-funds model because it scales.

What Is a DDoS Attack? A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a common and disruptive type of cyberattack aimed at overwhelming a target's online service with excessive traffic.

Elon Musk says X (formerly Twitter) has been hit by a "massive cyber-attack" on Monday, after thousands of users in the UK and US reported outages.

Microsoft also confessed, "While the initial trigger event was a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which activated our DDoS protection mechanisms, initial investigations suggest that an ...

Massive botnet that appeared overnight is delivering record-size DDoSes Eleven11bot infects video recorders, with the largest concentration of them in the US.

A newly discovered network botnet comprising an estimated 30,000 webcams and video recorders—with the largest concentration in the US—has been delivering what is likely to be the biggest ...

(CNN) — X owner Elon Musk claimed Monday that a distributed denial-of-service attack had overwhelmed the company’s servers, preventing him from beginning his interview with former President ...

Microsoft said initial problems on Tuesday on its Azure cloud platform had been triggered by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, where bad actors try and knock a platform offline by ...

The Saunders family in Baytown mourns Kaitlynn, a caring teenager who died of a heart attack, leaving them to plan a funeral instead of her 16th birthday.

Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson says his country is under attack, after days of hard-hitting DDoS attacks against SVT Sweden’s public TV broadcaster, government websites, and other key ...

Microsoft has confirmed the cause of the eight-hour Azure outage on July 30 was caused by a distributed denial of service attack.

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data ...