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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Late last year, an attacker known as "Matrix" orchestrated a large-scale distributed ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become the dominant tactic for cyber warfare, with countries like Israel, Georgia, Mexico and Turkey experiencing a significant spike in such ...

Network-based DDoS attacks continue to set record growth, with threat actors seeking to overwhelm the available bandwidth, firewalls, routers and compute infrastructure of their targets. Across its ...

The record-breaking DDoS against Cloudflare reached 22.2Tbps, about double the intensity of an earlier attack this month. The company has traced the incident to a powerful botnet called Aisuru. A new ...

Average packet-per-second (PPS) DDoS attack sizes surged 242% between the first and second halves of 2024, highlighting the need for greater threat mitigation. Network-based DDoS attacks continue to ...