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 ...

Azure was hit by the "largest-ever" cloud-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, originating from the Aisuru botnet and measuring 15.72 terabits per second (Tbps), according to Microsoft.… ...

On Monday Elon Musk conducted a much-anticipated interview with former President Donald Trump on X (formerly Twitter), a platform the billionaire CEO of Tesla bought in 2022. But the conversation ...

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 certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service disruptions. These insidious attacks are on the rise, ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although first hitting the cybersecurity threat intelligence ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a ...

Cloudflare claims to have prevented record-breaking Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Last week, the internet architecture provider claimed to have blocked “hundreds” of hyper-volumetric ...