The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred last ...

According to new data released by Netscout, distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are on the rise. There were 17 million such attacks in 2024 – up from 13 million the year before. It’s an ...

Seems like it was only the other week I was writing about Cloudflare throwing up its shields against a record-breaking DDoS attack—because it was. Yup, an attack pelting the servers with 11.5 Tbps ...

A new DDoS attack was so massive it packed double the firepower of the previous record-holder. On Monday, internet infrastructure company Cloudflare reported a distributed denial-of-service attack ...

WESTFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NETSCOUT ® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT), today released its latest research detailing the evolving Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack landscape. NETSCOUT ...

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps). DDoS attacks ...

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Solana withstood a historic 6 Tbps DDoS attack without downtime, demonstrating resilience comparable to Tier-1 internet infrastructure. Layered defenses, QUIC, stake-weighted QoS, and local fee ...

Security experts have warned of an increase in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks designed to overwhelm networks, after revealing the largest such effort to date peaked at 5.6 Terabits per second (Tbps).

Is it a day ending in 'y'? Well then that makes it just about time for Cloudflare to announce it's mitigated yet another record-breaking DDoS attack—this time to the tune of 11.5 Tbps (that's terabits ...

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