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Educational institutions main target during September spike Kasperksy researchers have blamed pesky schoolkids for the big September spike in denial-of-service attacks.…

It seems like the prolonged downtime and technical difficulties faced by The Pirate Bay over the past several weeks were due to a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against the...

Attacks are targeting international companies in the financial sector, demanding that victims pay ransom in Bitcoin.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers experienced service interruptions yesterday as the company struggled to fight off a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. As part of such an assault,...

By abusing a little-known multicast protocol, attackers can launch DDoS attacks of immense power, but there may be an easy fix.

The attack -- the 4th-largest the company has ever encountered -- leveraged WS-Discovery, the same exploit used in the 2016 Dyn incident.

Wikipedia has suffered what appears to be the most disruptive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in recent memory.

Analysis: Attackers Probed Weaknesses in Network Firewalls for 10 HoursEarlier this year, intruders probed weaknesses in the network firewalls of a U.S. power utility to attempt a distributed...

Wikipedia and World of Warcraft Classic users reported global outages over the weekend in targeted - and connected - DDoS attacks.

Sites in Europe, Middle East Affected Over the WeekendOnline encyclopedia Wikipedia is investigating a DDoS attack that temporarily blocked access to several of its European and Middle Eastern...