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 ...

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.

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Lizard Squad, the “hacker” group best known for attacking Microsoft’s ...

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 ...

MAHWAH, N.J., May 23, 2023— Radware® (NASDAQ: RDWR), a leading provider of cybersecurity and application delivery solutions, has introduced a new Cloud Web DDoS Protection solution. The ...

Researchers at Institut Polytechnique de Paris, Telecom Paris (INFRES) have created a new computational method that could detect Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks more efficiently and ...

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 ...

The researchers first detected the tool, a newer version of the Russkill bot known as Dirt Jumper, as it was executing DDoS attacks against two Russian Web sites -- a gaming website, and a site used ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks have not garnered much attention this year. But analysts say such attacks could surge in the months ahead, and they have the potential to be just as damaging as ...

Google Could have unveiled a public preview of Cloud Armor's Adaptive Protection -- a machine learning-powered method of detecting and protecting enterprise applications and services from Layer 7 DDoS ...

As 2022 draws to a close, Ramil Khantimirov, CEO and co-founder StormWall, shared his views on the global trends affecting DDoS attacks, the motivations of hackers today and the main threats relating ...