DDoS attacks in 2025 are faster, smarter, and larger, outpacing traditional telecom defenses.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. Although first hitting the cybersecurity threat intelligence ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

Distributed denial-of-service attacks continue to challenge IT teams, overwhelming resources and disrupting services if left unchecked. Microsoft's Azure DDoS Protection is designed to address this ...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks come in many shapes and sizes, as do the myths surrounding them. These myths can center on motivations, DDoS attack vectors and techniques, mitigation ...

Microsoft claimed to have thwarted what it dubbed the largest DDoS attack ever observed in the cloud. The exploit measured at 15.72 Tb/s and 3.64 billion packets per second (pps), targeting a single ...

The FIANNCIAL — Its name may not be very well known, but it is one of the most important companies on the global internet. Cloudflare suffered a major outage on Tuesday, November 18, causing ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

Microsoft has announced that it prevented the largest-ever cloud DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on its Azure cloud services, which occurred in October. In a report, the software giant ...

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 (DDoS) attacks largely driven by hacktivist groups represented the majority of cybersecurity incidents in the public sector last year, although data threats were more ...