Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. On the evening of September 20, the website of computer security researcher and journalist Brian Krebs suffered ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...

DDoS attacks are growing more destructive Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking one The traffic came from a combination of several IoT and cloud providers Internet infrastructure provider and ...

The largest ever DDoS attack on record, reaching 7.3 Terabits per second (Tbps), was blocked by Cloudflare in Q2 2025. This eclipses the previous largest DDoS attack observed, which Cloudflare ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records ...

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come ...

Security experts have warned of an increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm networks, after revealing the largest such effort to date peaked at 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

Cloudflare reports halting record DDoS attack peaking at 22.2Tbps and 10.6Bpps The attack lasted only 40 seconds, yet equaled streaming one million 4K videos Image shows automated detection of world ...

Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was a multi-vector attack that lasted for about two minutes and ...

Microsoft blamed an implementation error for amplifying the impact of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack yesterday, which ended up disrupting the company's ...