Latest DDoS attack news | The Daily Swig - PortSwigger
WEBAug 12, 2019 · DDoS attack news. A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack involves flooding a target system with internet traffic so that it is rendered unusable. Recent DDoS attacks have evolved to become a serious threat to the smooth running of both businesses and governments.
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q4 - The Cloudflare Blog
WEBJan 9, 2024 · In Q4, we observed a 117% year-over-year increase in network-layer DDoS attacks, and overall increased DDoS activity targeting retail, shipment and public relations websites during and around Black Friday and the holiday season.
Amazon 'thwarts largest ever DDoS cyber-attack' - BBC
WEBDistributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are designed to knock a website offline by flooding it with huge amounts of requests until it crashes. Amazon Web Services (AWS) said the February ...
Cloudflare, Google, and Amazon explain what’s behind the largest DDoS …
WEBOct 10, 2023 · Internet giants say a newly uncovered HTTP/2 vulnerability has been used to launch DDoS attacks that were far beyond any previously recorded.
Internet companies report biggest-ever denial of service operation
WEBWASHINGTON, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Internet companies Google, Amazon and Cloudflare say they have weathered the internet's largest-known denial of service attack and are sounding the alarm over a new...
DDoS threat report for 2023 Q3 - The Cloudflare Blog
WEBOct 26, 2023 · The global DDoS threat landscape. In the third quarter of 2023, Cloudflare faced one of the most sophisticated and persistent DDoS attack campaigns in recorded history.
‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ Zero-Day Exploited to Launch Largest DDoS …
WEBOct 10, 2023 · Cloudflare, Google and AWS revealed on Tuesday that a new zero-day vulnerability named ‘HTTP/2 Rapid Reset’ has been exploited by malicious actors to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in internet history.
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 71 million request-per-second DDoS …
WEBFeb 13, 2023 · Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, more than 54% higher than the previous reported record of 46M ...
DDoS attack traffic surged in 2023, Cloudflare finds
WEBJan 9, 2024 · Cloudflare said it mitigated more than 5.2 million HTTP DDoS attacks consisting of more than 26 trillion requests in 2023. While that’s a 20% decline compared to 2022 levels, mitigated network-layer DDoS attacks surged 85% to 8.7 million incidents in 2023, the company said.
Attackers find new ways to deliver DDoSes with “alarming ...
WEBJul 19, 2023 · The newer methods attempt to do two things: (1) conceal the maliciousness of the traffic so defenders don’t block it and (2) deliver ever-larger traffic floods that can overwhelm targets even when...
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