After the CopyFail vulnerability gave root access from any user on almost all distributions last week, this week we’ve got DirtyFrag. This chains the vulnerability in CopyFail (xfrm-ESP) and ...

A whole range of Ubuntu sites and services seem to be affected.

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 ...

“With over 75 000 warning emails and letters being sent to identified criminal users and 4 arrests, the action week also led to the takedown of 53 domains and the issuing of 25 search warrants,” ...

A coalition of global law enforcement agencies have sent emails to more than 75,000 alleged cybercriminals who paid for a service to launch cyberattacks that can knock websites offline. On Thursday, ...

QUESTION: How should security teams ensure they are effectively testing their DDoS defenses against their environment? Matthew Andriani, co-founder and CEO, MazeBolt: Millions of people wait until the ...

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 ...

Cloudflare has concocted a solution to tackle distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks based around a backbone protocol for online games, voice calls, and other apps reliant on real-time ...

Akamai warns that Layer 7 DDoS, API abuse and AI-powered attacks are merging into coordinated, multi-vector campaigns that are harder to detect and defend against. New research from internet ...

This is an updated version of our DDOS script written in Python incorporating Selenium ran in command line. It allows us to simulate DDoS attacks through single IP and multiple-IP (IP spoofing) ...