Deutsche Bahn suspects Russian hackers behind a major DDoS attack causing IT outages in its app and website, echoing past cyber incidents on German infrastructure.

A record-breaking 37.4 terabyte DDoS attack targeted a single IP address. CloudFlare successfully blocked the colossal attack aiming to flood the target. The attack equates to downloading 9,350 HD ...

A news story about the hacking of three million smart toothbrushes to create a massive botnet used to launch a distributed denial of service cyberattack against a Swiss organization has gone viral.

Today, it's rare for a month to pass without reports of new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks driven by geopolitical instability. Now, a single attack can include numerous countries and ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow, with the number of incidents doubling year-on-year (YoY), says new research. According to StormWall’s DDoS Attacks Report, DDoS attacks ...

On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

After hundreds of media outlets worldwide repeated the false claim that a botnet of three million toothbrushes attacked a Swiss company, the cybersecurity firm at the centre of the story has now ...

One of the easiest ways to protect your website or app is to use a Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF can help protect your site from common DDoS attacks by letting only safe requests through and ...

Here are a few headlines from the last 24 hours or so, about a supposed smart toothbrush botnet launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack: The reports were inspired by a report last week ...

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 ...

As everyone in the security space knows, misplaced confidence can often be much worse than a known weakness. When you have an accurate idea of where your vulnerabilities are, at least you can focus ...

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 ...