Cybercrime
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...
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Incident Response
Cloudflare has published its quarterly DDoS threat report for Q2 2025 and the company says it has blocked millions of attacks.
Network Security
Cloudflare has blocked yet another record-breaking DDoS attack, which delivered the equivalent of 9,000 HD movies in just 45 seconds.
Cybercrime
Between May 2024 and April 2025, Cloudflare blocked 109 billion malicious requests targeting organizations protected under Project Galileo.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Four people have been arrested in Poland and several websites associated with DDoS-for-hire services have been shut down.
Network Security
Information is coming to light on the cyberattack that caused X outages, but it should be taken with a pinch of salt.
Artificial Intelligence
Researchers found a jailbreak method that exposed DeepSeek’s system prompt, while others have analyzed the DDoS attacks aimed at the new gen-AI.
Artificial Intelligence
China’s DeepSeek blamed sign-up disruptions on a cyberattack as researchers started finding vulnerabilities in the R1 AI model.
Network Security
Cloudflare saw a 53% increase in DDoS attack frequency last year, when it blocked a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps attack.
Tracking & Law Enforcement
Law enforcement agencies in 15 countries cooperated in taking down 27 websites selling DDoS-for-hire services.
Network Security
Cyprus said that it has successfully thwarted a DDoS attack aimed at blocking access to the government’s central online portal.
Cybercrime
The DoJ has announced charges against Anonymous Sudan members and the disruption of their DDoS attack service.
Network Security
Cloudflare recently mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack, peaking at 3.8 Tbps and 2.14 billion Pps.
Cyberwarfare
Elon Musk says a cyberattack impacted a livestream interview with US Presidential candidate Donald Trump on the X social media platform.
Cloud Security
Microsoft’s response to a DDoS attack on Azure amplified the impact of the attack instead of mitigating it, causing outages.
Cybercrime
Authorities in the UK infiltrated and disrupted the DDoS-for-hire service DigitalStress, and one suspect was arrested.
Cybercrime
OVHcloud says it mitigated the largest ever DDoS attack leveraging packet rate, which peaked at 840 Mpps.
Cloud Security
SecurityWeek speaks to Tom Scholl, VP and distinguished engineer at AWS, on how the organization tackles IP Spoofing and DDoS attacks.
Network Security
New HTTP/2 DoS method named Continuation Flood can pose a greater risk than Rapid Reset, which has been used for record-breaking attacks.
Network Security
CISA, the FBI, and MS-ISAC have released new guidance on how federal agencies can defend against DDoS attacks.
Artificial Intelligence
Australia disclosed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to non-public government information.
Artificial Intelligence
Vulnerabilities
Artificial Intelligence
The prospect of legal accountability is unclear. Lawsuits are a possibility, but some legal experts believe any criminal investigations would face an extremely high...
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
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