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 ...

Police in Poland, The Netherlands, Germany, and the US take down DDoS-for-hire services and arrested alleged admins.

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

As we enter 2025, the threat landscape continues to evolve, with Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks growing in both scale and sophistication. So far this year, we’ve already seen several ...

Federal prosecutors charged four hackers for running a proxy botnet that exploited infected routers, using domains like ...

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 ...