Because of these attacks, a new security term, a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was born. In a DDoS attack, an attacker instructs several compromised systems to flood a target system with ...

Various UK council websites have suffered a series of DDoS attacks launched by a pro-Russia group to oppose UK's renewed ...

Cloudflare has claimed to have recently mitigated the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history. In a company blog post, Cloudflare outlined how, throughout September 2024 ...

Protecting against DDoS traditionally involves manual, high-effort investments that decay in efficacy as attackers evolve their approaches, and do not fit into modern software delivery workflows.

A hacker this week launched a new record-breaking DDoS attack, just weeks after Cloudflare thwarted the previous record-setting assault. The attack, which reached 4.2Tbps, occurred on Monday and ...