Hackers use sophisticated tactics to overwhelm networks, both as tools of protests and as ruses to distract from serious crimes “It’s no longer hidden. It’s very, very public, it’s well known,” said ...

Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

The Internet is a chaotic medium — packets tend to flow from a uniformly distributed set of sources to a variety of destinations. Yet during a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the chaos ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are particularly hostile: Threat actors deliberately attempt to disrupt operations of publicly exposed sites, systems, and APIs. When successful, they can ...

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks certainly come to mind when considering cyberattacks that can cause widespread outages and service disruptions. These insidious attacks are on the rise, ...

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are warning organizations to take proactive steps to reduce the impact of distributed ...

Threat groups are constantly getting more sophisticated in their attempts to evade detection and enact harm. One common tactic that many security practitioners have witnessed is carrying out ...

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 ...