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.

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

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

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

Russian DDoS networkOperation Eastwood saw 2 suspects arrested and over 100 servers affectedMajor infrastructure related to ...

Cloudflare has published its quarterly DDoS threat report for Q2 2025 and the company says it has blocked millions of attacks ...

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 ...

Since then, no DDoS attack has ever been so newsworthy, but the problem hasn’t gotten away. On December 15, 2022, right before Christmas — historically a popular time to launch DDoS attacks ...

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

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; ...

Activist DDoS actions — like all DDoS attacks — are invasive, they are destructive, and they cause extensive collateral damage to non-combatants. This is not an issue of whether or not the ...