Bitcoin Knots' attempt at transaction filtering has been a completely ineffective and failed attempt to denial-of-service ...

A security flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface could be used to initiate a distributed denial-of-service attack on websites, according to a researcher. The discovery was made by ...

The scale of the attack shows an ever-increasing amplification of distributed denial-of-service attempts, aided in part by the growing number of vulnerable or poorly secured IoT devices. Content ...

An ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targets Bohemia Interactive's infrastructure, preventing players of DayZ and Arma Reforger from playing the games online. Bohemia Interactive is ...

The biggest, baddest DDoS attack to date was just fended off. The attack used the trivial, but nasty, UDP flood attack. You must protect yourself against DDoS attacks. Over the Labor Day weekend, ...

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...

KrebsOnSecurity last week was hit by a near record distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that clocked in at more than 6.3 terabits of data per second (a terabit is one trillion bits of data).

On Saturday, Triplegangers CEO Oleksandr Tomchuk was alerted that his company’s e-commerce site was down. It looked to be some kind of distributed denial-of-service attack. He soon discovered the ...

An inside look at the anatomy of the pro-WikiLeaks hack attack. Dec. 10, 2010— -- Downloads of the software program used by Wikileaks supporters to launch cyberattacks online spiked overnight, ...

Update (Aug. 4, 2025, at 1:50 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by XMRig developer Sergei Chernykh. A mining pool behind an attempted 51% takeover of Monero is reportedly under ...

Redmond has confirmed the eight-hour Azure outage on July 30 was triggered by a distributed denial-of-service attack, but an “error in the implementation of [their ...