A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a security threat that occurs when an attacker makes it impossible for legitimate users to access computer systems, networks, services or other IT resources.

A DDoS attack overwhelms a target server or network by flooding it with massive traffic from multiple compromised systems, making legitimate access nearly impossible. These network security threats ...

For web services that provide movies, live sports streaming, and original video content, service outages (downtime) lead to ...

Researchers have built a federated, explainable VAE-LSTM framework that detects previously unseen DDoS attacks in software-defined healthcare networks with over 98 percent accuracy while keeping ...

NETSCOUT® SYSTEMS, INC. (NASDAQ: NTCT) released its first half 2026 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing a significant shift in how attacks are launched and ...

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. Compared with the first quarter, when the ...

Hacktivists have claimed responsibility for taking down the public-facing infrastructure of popular Linux operating system distribution Ubuntu, as well as Canonical, the company that develops and ...

DDoS attacks grew in scale during the first half of 2026, bringing larger traffic floods, shorter attack durations, and increasingly automated campaigns. Cloudflare’s H1 2026 DDoS Threat Report shows ...

In April 2026, Europol announced the results of its latest strike against the booming DDoS-for-hire industry: four arrests, 53 web domains seized, and more than 75,000 warning letters sent to people ...

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack recently targeted BridgeMind’s API, flooding it with millions of requests and disrupting services. To mitigate the issue, the team relied on Claude Code, ...