A pair of attacks revealed by researchers this year underscored the fragility of the Domain Name System (DNS) and the security extensions (DNSSEC) that were adopted to help secure the world's internet ...

In early December 2025, the React core team disclosed two new vulnerabilities affecting React Server Components (RSC). These issues – Denial-of-Service and Source Code Exposure were found by security ...

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack briefly disrupted the website for Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport on Friday, though airport operations were not impacted. The ATL technology team ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Cloudflare has mitigated the biggest distributed denial of service ...

TL;DR: Cloudflare recently blocked the largest recorded DDoS attack, peaking at 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 billion packets per second, originating from a UDP flood involving IoT and cloud providers like Google ...

In just three months, the massive Aisuru botnet launched more than 1,300 distributed denial-of-service attacks, one of them setting a new record with a peak at 29.7 terabits per second. Aisuru is a ...

Services at X Corp., formerly Twitter, were heavily disrupted today after the company was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack for which a pro-Palestinian hacking group has taken credit.

Both FBI investigators and private tech gumshoes continue to seek out the perpetrator of most of the recent Web site denial of service attacks. Stanford University network security administrator David ...

Dark Storm claims responsibility for X DDoS attack. Update, March 12, 2025: This story, originally published March 11, has been updated with additional insight from multiple security experts regarding ...

C-suite executives need to ensure their enterprises are protected against the wide-ranging effects of supercharged distributed denial of service attacks. Every year, distributed denial of service ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks are “more powerful than ever,” with AI helping automate tasks and bypass CAPTCHA systems, according to Netscout researchers. Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

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 ...