Cloudflare: Record 7.3Tbps DDoS Attack Hits Mystery Target Cloudflare says the attack is a 'multivector DDoS attack' in which 99.996% of the malicious attack traffic was executed via what is known ...

While businesses are beginning to leverage AI, they are under siege from an array of cyberthreats, namely DDoS attacks.

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data ...

News DDoS attacks have skyrocketed 358% year-over-year, report says According to Cloudflare, 20.5 million DDoS attacks were thwarted in the first quarter of 2025.

Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase.

DDoS attacks differ from Denial of Service (DoS) attacks in that they rely on different IP addresses. In other words, the attack comes from multiple different sources, rather than just one location.

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a dominant method of cyberattack linked to sociopolitical events.

Much like a canary in a coal mine, the rise of AI-enhanced DDoS attacks signals a shift toward more adaptive and complex cyber threats.

Generating simple DDoS attacks is relatively easy, with a low barrier to entry. For a more sophisticated attack, in which it is used as smokescreen to hack into systems, it usually requires an ...

DDoS attacks don't take much technical expertise to launch these days. Defending against them is more complicated.

With the development of data plane programmable Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks on the data plane increasingly become fatal. Currently, traditional ...

Yet among the surge in attacks, such as ransomware of business email compromise, one form of attack has seen a somewhat surprising exponential surge: DDoS. DDoS Dynamics A new wave of Distributed ...