A European DDoS mitigation provider has been struck by an unprecedented attack, with traffic volumes peaking at 1.5 billion packets per second. The massive wave originated from thousands of compromised IoT devices and MikroTik...
By the close of 2023, it had become evident that the largest coordinated crackdown to date on DDoS-for-Hire services produced a paradoxical outcome. Researchers, presenting their findings at USENIX Security 2025, traced the market’s...
Researchers at Eclypsium have recorded a sharp increase in scanning activity targeting outdated and long-abandoned network equipment. The chief danger lies in the fact that many of these attacks are being launched from already-compromised...
NetScaler has issued an urgent advisory warning administrators of three newly discovered vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway—one of which is already being actively exploited. Updates are now available, and the vendor strongly...
A newly discovered attack on the HTTP/2 protocol, dubbed MadeYouReset, has been unveiled by researchers from Tel Aviv University and disclosed following coordinated reporting through Akamai’s bug bounty program. Although Akamai’s own HTTP/2 implementation...
At DEF CON 33, researchers from SafeBreach unveiled a new attack technique dubbed Win-DDoS, capable of transforming thousands of publicly accessible domain controllers (DCs) worldwide into a powerful botnet for large-scale DDoS attacks. The...
Hackers have ramped up their attacks on vulnerable Linux servers with exposed SSH access, deploying the SVF Botnet—a simple yet effective malicious framework designed for conducting DDoS attacks and cryptocurrency mining. This revelation comes...
Cloudflare recorded a dramatic decline in the number of DDoS attacks during the second quarter of 2025, mitigating 7.3 million incidents—down sharply from the 20.5 million reported in the first quarter. However, despite the...
A newly emerged botnet known as hpingbot, identified by the NSFOCUS Fuying Lab‘s global threat monitoring system, has rapidly become one of the most prominent cyber threats since its appearance in early June 2025....
At the international Botconf conference held in May 2025 in Angers, France, experts from NICT CSRI unveiled the findings of their three-year investigation into the RapperBot malware. Their conclusions were alarming: this evolved variant...