Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks occur when an individual device, known as a bot, or a network of devices, known as a botnet, is infected with malware. These bots or botnets flood websites ...

Learn what a DDoS attack is, how it works, and how cybersecurity tools like botnets detection, rate limiting, and cloud ...

Hackers are revamping their DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks in a more effective yet simpler way. This time, they want to inflict more damage to the services by deploying more disruptive ...

AI is changing the economics and speed of disruption, making downtime easier to trigger and harder to prevent. Radware’s 2026 Global Threat Analysis ...

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 ...

According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021. The average attack power will grow from 150–300 Gbps to 500–700 Gbps. Both ordinary users and ...

The political situation in Europe and the rest of the world has degraded dramatically in 2022. This has affected the nature, intensity, and geography of DDoS attacks, which have become actively used ...

Plenty of gamers have tried to log on to their favorite live-service game, only to encounter login queues, crashes, and downed servers. While natural traffic can sometimes cause these situations, DDoS ...

C-suite executives need to ensure their enterprises are protected against the wide-ranging effects of supercharged distributed denial of service attacks. Every year, distributed denial of service ...

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 ...

While Microsoft is no stranger to outages, the series of service issues the company recently experienced earlier in June was striking. On back-to-back days in early June, Microsoft 365 services such ...

A group of hacktivists have claimed responsibility for a distributed denial-of-service attack, which has affected several ...