DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

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?

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 ...

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A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack recently targeted BridgeMind’s API, flooding it with millions of requests and disrupting services. To mitigate the issue, the team relied on Claude Code, ...

Fraudsters are increasingly using distributed-denial-of-service attacks to distract institutions during account takeover and other fraudulent schemes, says fraud prevention expert Avivah Litan of the ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

The US government has published new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack guidance for public sector entities to help prevent disruption to critical services. The document is designed to serve ...

Distributed Denial Of Service (DDoS) attacks take many different forms and use a variety of techniques, but the goal is consistent: To overwhelm a service to the extent that it can't provide access to ...