Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are targeting smaller businesses and freelancers. Can using a VPN help?

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although first hitting the cybersecurity threat intelligence ...

Cloudflare just announced on X that it blocked the highest DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack in history, which was an 11.5 Terabits per second DDoS attack that came as a UDP (User Datagram ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

As spotted by Linuxiac, the Arch Linux website is currently under siege from a DDoS attack. This type of attack floods a website with requests from bots, causing the servers to collapse under the ...

Cloudflare surveyed customers about DDoS attacks, and 29% claimed to have identified the sources of those attacks. Of those who identified the attackers, 63% pointed to competitors, the largest of ...

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...

The financial industry has been particularly affected by large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks for years, but the recent escalating sophistication of these attacks marks a shift, ...

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At the same time, authorities reported some 200,000 cyberattacks on the national power grid. These attacks targeted both IT and operational technology (OT) systems, possibly probing for ...

Solana withstood a 6 Tbps DDoS attack for over a week, maintaining full operational stability with no downtime or delays.