A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several Ubuntu and Canonical websites, and prevented users from updating the ...

As botnets grow larger and attackers become more opportunistic, organizations can no longer treat DDoS resilience as a secondary concern ...

In April 2026, Europol announced the results of its latest strike against the booming DDoS-for-hire industry: four arrests, ...

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 ...

Separate spinoffs of the infamous Mirai botnet are responsible for a fresh wave of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally. One is exploiting specific vulnerabilities in Internet of ...

Ransomware, phishing, and DDoS attacks are disrupting fleets, exposing vulnerabilities in digital freight operations and ...

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 ...

DDoS-for-hire boom blamed for attacks on SA’s ISPs By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editorJohannesburg, 20 May 2026The goal of a DDoS attack is to flood a website, server, or online service with massive ...

Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm networked systems with massive traffic from compromised devices, disrupting communication and making critical services like PV system monitoring and control ...

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 ...

Dutch police say they dismantled a large botnet this week comprising at least 17 million infected devices. After being tipped off by a researcher at the Netherlands' National Cyber Security Centre ...