How hard is it to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack? Arguably, the hacktivist collective Anonymous has made launching DDoS attacks look easy, due to its high-profile DDoS campaigns ...

The concept of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks finally entered the mainstream public consciousness this month after assaults on the websites of Visa, MasterCard and PayPal made front page ...

Network professionals know that distributed denial-of-service attacks are an ever-growing danger. The recent assault on Twitter is just the latest evidence. Using a mushrooming array of advanced tools ...

In the cat-and-mouse game between DDoS hackers and defenders, it seems protection vendors have made great progress in the past year - particularly in the realm of application-layer attacks.

Cyberattackers in China are gravitating toward online DDoS platforms, as evidenced by a recent surge in Chinese websites offering DDoS services. Researchers at Cisco Talos, a division of Cisco focused ...

In late May 2026, U.S. and European authorities pulled off the largest coordinated strike ever against the commercial market for cyberattacks-on-demand, seizing control of four massive botnets built ...

For anyone keeping tracking of distributed denial-of-service attack volumes, you ain't seen nothing yet, says Gary Sockrider at DDoS defense firm Arbor Networks. In the past, DDoS attacks relied on ...

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Recipients of new game consoles this holiday season were robbed of their holiday gaming when a group of internet miscreants known as Lizard Squad launched a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS ...

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