The recently-revealed Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) security flaw may be even worse than expected following new claims it can be abused to amplify distributed denial of service (DDoS ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks continue to grow, with the number of incidents doubling year-on-year (YoY), says new research. According to StormWall’s DDoS Attacks Report, DDoS attacks ...

Hacktivist groups ramp up DDoS attacks One pro-Russia hacktivist group that is increasingly focused on such attacks is NoName057(16). This group sprung up in 2022 with the development of a DDoS ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February ...

Recently, Cloudflare mitigated a massive DDoS attack that was part of a month-long campaign targeting multiple types of customers. The CDN "auto-mitigated" a record-breaking DDoS attack aimed at a ...

Read more about a China-linked threat actor that has compromised more than 260 000 devices worldwide to facilitate DDoS and other targeted attacks. A new joint cybersecurity advisory from the ...

NZX said it had first been hit by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack from abroad, on Tuesday. The exchange said the attack had "impacted NZX network connectivity" and it had decided to ...

An attack becomes a 'distributed denial of service', referred to as “DDoS”, when it comes from multiple computers (or vectors) instead of just one. Genuine users are not able to access ...

"When the bad guys realized what was happening, they tried to migrate their bots to new servers and even conducted a DDoS attack against us," Wray said. "Working with our partners, we were able to ...