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Gcore DDoS Radar Reveals 56% YoY Increase in DDoS Attacks
2025-02-11 11:25

Gcore’s latest DDoS Radar report analyzes attack data from Q3–Q4 2024, revealing a 56% YoY rise in the total number of DDoS attacks with the largest attack peaking at a record 2 Tbps. The...

DDoS attacks reportedly behind DayZ and Arma network outages
2025-02-06 16:09

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. [...]

New Aquabot Botnet Exploits CVE-2024-41710 in Mitel Phones for DDoS Attacks
2025-01-30 06:41

A Mirai botnet variant dubbed Aquabot has been observed actively attempting to exploit a medium-severity security flaw impacting Mitel phones in order to ensnare them into a network capable of...

Mirai botnet behind the largest DDoS attack to date
2025-01-22 14:54

Researchers have uncovered two Mirai-based botnets harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) devices to DDoS target organizations around the world. The Murdoc botnet Qualys researchers have laid bare...

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet
2025-01-22 13:53

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed...

Mirai Botnet Launches Record 5.6 Tbps DDoS Attack with 13,000+ IoT Devices
2025-01-22 06:19

Web infrastructure and security company Cloudflare on Tuesday said it detected and blocked a 5.6 Terabit per second (Tbps) distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, the largest ever attack to...

Cloudflare mitigated a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack
2025-01-21 21:04

The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. [...]

Mirai Botnet Variant Exploits Four-Faith Router Vulnerability for DDoS Attacks
2025-01-08 10:29

A Mirai botnet variant has been found exploiting a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Four-Faith industrial routers since early November 2024 with the goal of conducting distributed...

Lights out for 18 more DDoS booters in pre-Christmas Operation PowerOFF push
2024-12-12 12:01

Holiday cheer comes in the form of three arrests and 27 shuttered domains The Europol-coordinated Operation PowerOFF struck again this week as cross-border cops pulled the plug on 27 more domains...

27 DDoS-for hire platforms seized by law enforcement
2024-12-12 10:20

As part of an ongoing international crackdown known as Operation PowerOFF, international law enforcement has seized over two dozen platforms used to carry out Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)...