Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

The attack ranks among the largest ever recorded across the internet. Solana has weathered one of the most powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ever recorded without any visible ...

Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko claims the network is facing an industrial-scale 6 Tbps DDoS attack that has shown little visible impact. Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko and several accounts ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

As the old saying goes: if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. That’s a mindset that’s been fully embraced by Riley Walz, a 23-year-old “tech prankster” who runs a popular account on X-formerly-Twitter.

The coordinated attack occurred shortly before 11 PM ET in early October. Reports first surfaced from Riot Games, which confirmed problems affecting League of Legends and Valorant players. Within ...

According to BleepingComputer, content delivery network Cloudflare recently recorded the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever measured. As of September 2025, Cloudflare is used by ...

A novel ShadowV2 bot campaign is turning distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks into a full-blown for-hire business, blending old-school malware with cloud-native deployment. According to a ...

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...

TL;DR: Cloudflare recently blocked the largest recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 billion packets per second, originating from a UDP flood involving IoT and cloud providers like Google ...

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...