Iran’s escalating cyberwarfare poses an immediate major threat to U.S. critical infrastructure. Learn about the threat and ...

Record values: Terabit attacks have become common. While a single 1.4 Tbit/s attack was considered exceptional in 2024, three attacks surpassing 1 Tbit/s were recorded in 2025. The strongest attack ...

A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow, with the number of incidents doubling year-on-year (YoY), says new research. According to StormWall’s DDoS Attacks Report, DDoS attacks ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have disrupted state websites, digital court services and more this year. Now, federal agencies are calling all levels of government to heed the threat and ...

Today, it's rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks driven by geopolitical instability. Now, a single attack can include numerous countries and ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now ...

As everyone in the security space knows, misplaced confidence can often be much worse than a known weakness. When you have an accurate idea of where your vulnerabilities are, at least you can focus ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

One of the easiest ways to protect your website or app is to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF can help protect your site from common DDoS attacks by letting only safe requests through and ...