Start with timing. In 2024, roughly 44% of DDoS campaigns concluded within five minutes. This year, that figure jumped to 78% ...

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 ...

A new report released today from Aqua Security Software Ltd.’s Nautilus research team details a massive distributed denial-of-service campaign by a threat actor called Matrix. The threat actor uses ...

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Pro-Russian group NoName057(16) uses a denial-of-service tool to mobilize volunteers and disrupt sites and organization tied ...

The website of the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) has been targeted by a large-scale distributed ...

In the latest report on global Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks that occurred during the fourth quarter of 2024, the cyber landscape has encountered a surge in DDoS attacks. The quarter ...

The Kimwolf botnet has ensnared over 2 million Android devices, mainly exploiting an exposed ADB service through residential ...

A hacking group stirred outrage online for carrying out a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against the Internet Archive. The group, known as SN_Blackmeta, revealed in a post to X on ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have been around ...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — ...

The launch of Final Fantasy 14's latest Savage Raid tier is marred by DDoS attacks affecting the game's servers, though the ...