Cloudflare says that, of customer‑identified DDoS attacks, competitors are behind 63% of attacks, and 5% are self‑inflicted.

Criminals are using massive DDoS to trick businesses into looking elsewhere while something more sinister happens: Here's what you need to know.

"Overall, in Q2 2025, hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks skyrocketed," Omer Yoachimik and Jorge Pacheco said. "Cloudflare blocked ...

IoT devices are notoriously under-secured. Unlike traditional computing systems, these devices often come with limited processing power, hardcoded default credentials, minimal firmware protection, and ...

An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation Eastwood" has targeted the infrastructure of the pro-Russian ...

Cloudflare highlighted a huge rise in hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks in Q2 2025, with attackers seeking to overwhelm defenses ...

Cloudflare has published its quarterly DDoS threat report for Q2 2025 and the company says it has blocked millions of attacks ...

Russian DDoS networkOperation Eastwood saw 2 suspects arrested and over 100 servers affectedMajor infrastructure related to ...

Since then, no DDoS attack has ever been so newsworthy, but the problem hasn’t gotten away. On December 15, 2022, right before Christmas — historically a popular time to launch DDoS attacks ...

Blocked 7.3 million attacks in Q2 2025, down from Q1 but 44% higher YoY compared to Q2 2024, with India among top targets.

This, in turn, meant that they could be the target of a DDoS attack. On March 23rd, the attackers used this information to attack specific addresses within LINX.

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