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Major international events attract not just global audiences but also distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games proved no exception: DDoS attack volume against ...

Ubuntu’s web infrastructure remains unavailable after going offline Thursday morning, blocking updates and other access at a time when Linux admins really need to apply a patch. “Canonical’s web ...

Following a similar assault on Bluesky just days prior, the decentralized social media platform Mastodon has also been targeted in a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The attack ...

A distributed denial-of-service attack struck Mastodon’s flagship server on Monday, making it occasionally unavailable, according to the social networking company. A large portion of the website was ...

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early ...

A pro-Iran hacker group has taken credit for the attack on Bluesky, which appears to have lasted 24 hours. Bluesky, the decentralized microblogging social media platform, reported service outages last ...

As a result, users have been experiencing “intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky says. The company first got a report of “intermittent app ...

Yesterday, Bluesky experienced an outage in which Downdetector observed a high rise in thousands at around 6:30am ET, and as of 2:28pm, there were large recoveries, which were observed to be resolved, ...

A coalition of global law enforcement agencies have sent emails to more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals who paid for a service to launch cyberattacks that can knock websites offline. On Thursday, ...

Jamf Threat Labs has discovered a ClickFix-style macOS attack that abuses the applescript:// URL scheme to launch Script Editor and deliver an Atomic Stealer infostealer payload — bypassing Terminal ...