Cloudflare says that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, competitors are behind 63% of attacks, and 5% are self‑inflicted.

Criminals are using massive DDoS to trick businesses into looking elsewhere while something more sinister happens: Here's what you need to know.

"Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed," Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. "Cloudflare blocked ...

Cloudflare highlighted a huge rise in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, with attackers seeking to overwhelm defenses ...

An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Eastwood" has targeted the infrastructure of the pro-Russian ...

A DDoS attack is just a means to an end, too, so there's a wide range of threat actors who might include it in their toolkit. The size, length, ...

IoT devices are notoriously under-secured. Unlike traditional computing systems, these devices often come with limited processing power, hardcoded default credentials, minimal firmware protection, and ...

DDoS attacks are relentless. New techniques, new targets and a new class of attackers continue to reinvigorate one of the internet’s oldest nemeses. Distributed denial of service attacks, bent ...

This sort of attack is deeply different than the headline-grabbing DDoS attacks of years past. In 2011, hacker collective Anonymous rose to fame with DDoS attacks that pale in comparison to today ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks dropped significantly at the end of 2020, down 31 percent in the fourth quarter, according to researchers.

A DDoS attack can prevent customers from being able to access their finances, striking at the core of that trust — after which it may not be possible for a financial institution to rebuild the ...

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