Security News > 2018 > April > Major DDoS attack lasts 297 hours, as botnets bombard businesses

2018-04-27 12:48
In 2018, Q1 saw a DDoS attack that lasted 12 days, the longest since 2015, according to Kaspersky Lab.
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