On March 10, X experienced multiple outages, with tens of thousands of users reporting the social site was down for them. Later that day, after multiple failures, X came back online. What caused this?

Cloudflare is a robust content delivery network (CDN) that specializes in providing protection against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks. Last month, Cloudflare blocked the largest DDoS ...

Distributed denial of service is a type of DoS attack where multiple compromised systems, which are often joined with a Trojan, are used to target a single system causing an attack. The DDoS attack ...

As the internet has become more accessible over the years, bad actors around the world have found it easier to use it to commit crimes and harass others. That's unfortunate — as much as the internet ...

Bots such as AkiraBot use AI to bypass CAPTCHA and flood sites with spam. And in late August 2025, ESET researchers uncovered ...

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DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns Your email has been sent Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming ...