HTTPBot, first spotted in the wild in August 2024, gets its name from the use of HTTP protocols to launch distributed ...

For many years, the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) threat landscape revolved around reflection/amplification attacks ...

U.S. authorities indicted three Russians and one Kazakhstan national for hacking and selling access to a botnet made of ...

Anyproxy and 5socks proxy services powered by devices ensnared by a botnet have been disrupted in a law enforcement operation.

Europol dismantled six DDoS-for-hire services, arrested four, seized nine domains—disrupting attacks since 2022.

The previous record, also reported by Cloudflare, was a 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack attributed to a Mirai-based botnet comprising 13,000 devices. The latest attack was a test run targeting the actor's ...

A massive DDoS attack was recently detected during a major NHL event Attack grew from 67Gbps to nearly 1Tbps in twenty minutes Multivector strike used UDP, SYN, IP, and TCP flood techniques ...

These services are thought to have facilitated “widespread attacks on schools ... The difference between usual DDoS botnets and stresser/booter services is that DDoS botnets are usually run ...

Four people have been arrested in Poland and several websites associated with DDoS-for-hire services have been shut down.

The difference between usual DDoS botnets and stresser/booter services ... which is why law enforcement usually shuts them down. Largest DDoS attack of 2025 so far was triggered by Alexander ...