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 ...

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 ...

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

Blocked 7.3 million attacks in Q2 2025, down from Q1 but 44% higher YoY compared to Q2 2024, with India among top targets.

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 ...

The fear about WS-Discovery DDoS attacks, though, is that the gaming industry won't be the last target. More Great WIRED Stories. WIRED's 13 must-read books for fall; ...

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 ...