U.S. prosecutors charged a 23-year-old Ottawa man with operating a DDoS-for-hire service that hijacked more than one million home devices — including smart TVs and web cameras — to generate the ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT ® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing ...

A DDoS attack overwhelms a target server or network by flooding it with massive traffic from multiple compromised systems, making legitimate access nearly impossible. These network security threats ...

Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public-facing infrastructure of popular Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu, as well as Canonical, the company that develops and ...

Attackers use DDoS attacks to disrupt and extort companies, or cause reputational and financial damage. (Image generated by ChatGPT) South Africa-based web hosting platform 1-Grid has been hit by a ...

Bluesky’s DDoS attack caused outages for a second day, disrupting feeds, notifications, and search across the platform. If Bluesky has been acting up lately, you’re not alone. Feeds won’t load.

The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured ...

Mastodon’s flagship server was hit by a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, the social networking software maker said, which rendered the instance ...

From DDoS attacks to public Wi-Fi risks, here's what a VPN is effective against—and the threats that require other tools and ...