Vulnerabilities ‘MadeYouReset’ HTTP2 Vulnerability Enables Massive DDoS Attacks The new DDoS attack vector, which involves HTTP/2 implementation flaws, has been compared to Rapid Reset. Eduard KovacsAugust 14, 2025
Cybercrime Europol-Coordinated Global Operation Takes Down Pro-Russian Cybercrime Network Codenamed Eastwood, the operation targeted the so-called NoName057(16) group, which was identified as being behind a series of DDoS attacks on municipalities and organizations... Associated PressJuly 16, 2025
Incident Response DDoS Attacks Blocked by Cloudflare in 2025 Already Surpass 2024 Total Cloudflare has published its quarterly DDoS threat report for Q2 2025 and the company says it has blocked millions of attacks. Eduard KovacsJuly 15, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS Attack Targets Hosting Provider Cloudflare has blocked yet another record-breaking DDoS attack, which delivered the equivalent of 9,000 HD movies in just 45 seconds. Eduard KovacsJune 20, 2025
Cybercrime Surge in Cyberattacks Targeting Journalists: Cloudflare Between May 2024 and April 2025, Cloudflare blocked 109 billion malicious requests targeting organizations protected under Project Galileo. Ionut ArghireJune 12, 2025
Tracking & Law Enforcement Europol Announces More DDoS Service Takedowns, Arrests Four people have been arrested in Poland and several websites associated with DDoS-for-hire services have been shut down. Eduard KovacsMay 8, 2025
Network Security Hackers Take Credit for X Cyberattack Information is coming to light on the cyberattack that caused X outages, but it should be taken with a pinch of salt. Eduard KovacsMarch 11, 2025
Artificial Intelligence DeepSeek Security: System Prompt Jailbreak, Details Emerge on Cyberattacks Researchers found a jailbreak method that exposed DeepSeek’s system prompt, while others have analyzed the DDoS attacks aimed at the new gen-AI. Eduard KovacsFebruary 3, 2025
Artificial Intelligence DeepSeek Blames Disruption on Cyberattack as Vulnerabilities Emerge China’s DeepSeek blamed sign-up disruptions on a cyberattack as researchers started finding vulnerabilities in the R1 AI model. Eduard KovacsJanuary 28, 2025
Network Security Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Reached 5.6 Tbps Cloudflare saw a 53% increase in DDoS attack frequency last year, when it blocked a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps attack. Ionut ArghireJanuary 22, 2025
Tracking & Law Enforcement 27 DDoS Attack Services Taken Down by Law Enforcement Law enforcement agencies in 15 countries cooperated in taking down 27 websites selling DDoS-for-hire services. Ionut ArghireDecember 12, 2024
Network Security Cyprus Thwarted a Digital Attack Against the Government’s Main Online Portal Cyprus said that it has successfully thwarted a DDoS attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal. Associated PressOctober 20, 2024
Cybercrime Anonymous Sudan DDoS Service Disrupted, Members Charged by US The DoJ has announced charges against Anonymous Sudan members and the disruption of their DDoS attack service. Eduard KovacsOctober 17, 2024
Network Security Record-Breaking DDoS Attack Peaked at 3.8 Tbps, 2.14 Billion Pps Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps and 2.14 billion Pps. Eduard KovacsOctober 2, 2024
Cyberwarfare Elon Musk Says Cyberattack Crashed Site Ahead of Trump Livestream Interview Elon Musk says a cyberattack impacted a livestream interview with US Presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social media platform. SecurityWeek NewsAugust 13, 2024
Cloud Security Microsoft Says Azure Outage Caused by DDoS Attack Response Microsoft’s response to a DDoS attack on Azure amplified the impact of the attack instead of mitigating it, causing outages. Eduard KovacsJuly 31, 2024
Cybercrime Law Enforcement Disrupts DDoS-for-Hire Service DigitalStress Authorities in the UK infiltrated and disrupted the DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress, and one suspect was arrested. Ionut ArghireJuly 23, 2024
Cybercrime OVHcloud Sees Record 840 Mpps DDoS Attack OVHcloud says it mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack leveraging packet rate, which peaked at 840 Mpps. Ionut ArghireJuly 5, 2024
Cloud Security Inside AWS’s Crusade Against IP Spoofing and DDoS Attacks SecurityWeek speaks to Tom Scholl, VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, on how the organization tackles IP Spoofing and DDoS attacks. Kevin TownsendApril 11, 2024
Network Security New HTTP/2 DoS Attack Potentially More Severe Than Record-Breaking Rapid Reset New HTTP/2 DoS method named Continuation Flood can pose a greater risk than Rapid Reset, which has been used for record-breaking attacks. Eduard KovacsApril 4, 2024