Tech.co

DDoS Attacks on the Rise, but How Can You Prevent One?

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 ...
Microsoft

Defending consumer web properties against modern DDoS attacks

Learn how to protect consumer websites and defend against modern DDoS attacks with layered security, resilient architecture, ...
SDxCentral

DDoS attacks are outpacing networks as attack sizes rise by almost 70%

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting progressively more complex, with software-defined and cloud-driven infrastructures becoming tantalizing targets for threat actors relying on ...
ZDNet

How to protect your site from DDoS attacks - before it's too late

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?
Bleeping Computer

DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...
Morningstar

NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities

AI Adoption, coordinated botnets, and persistent hacktivists groups drove millions of attacks NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial ...
CSOonline

5 myths about DDoS attacks and protection

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...
SDxCentral

DDoS attacks are massive and here to stay: Cloudflare

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 ...
ZDNet

Cloudflare stops new world's largest DDoS attack over Labor Day weekend

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, ...
Business Wire

Fastly Unveils DDoS Attack Insights to Strengthen Protection and Security Transparency

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fastly, Inc. (NYSE: FSLY), a leader in global edge cloud platforms, has announced key updates to Fastly DDoS Protection that deliver unprecedented visibility into ...
Business Wire

NETSCOUT Reveals Qualitative Shifts in DDoS Attack Sophistication, Infrastructure Capacity, and Threat Actor Capabilities

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 ...