Russia-aligned hacktivists persistently target key public and private organizations in the Netherlands with distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, causing access problems and service disruptions. The situation was acknowledged via a statement by the country’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), part of the Dutch Ministry of Justice. “This week, several Dutch organizations have been targeted … Read more
Internet services giant Cloudflare says it mitigated a record number of DDoS attacks in 2024, recording a massive 358% year-over-year jump and a 198% quarter-over-quarter increase. These figures come from Cloudflare’s 2025 Q1 DDoS Report, where the company says it mitigated a total of 21.3 million DDoS attacks in 2024. However, 2025 is looking to be … Read more
The Dark Storm hacktivist group claims to be behind DDoS attacks causing multiple X worldwide outages on Monday, leading the company to enable DDoS protections from Cloudflare. While X owner Elon Musk did not specifically state that DDoS attacks were behind the outages, he did confirm that it was caused by a “massive cyberattack.”. “There … Read more
A new botnet malware named ‘Eleven11bot’ has infected over 86,000 IoT devices, primarily security cameras and network video recorders (NVRs), to conduct DDoS attacks. The botnet, which is loosely linked to Iran, has already launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks targeting telecommunication service providers and online gaming servers. Eleven11bot was discovered by Nokia researchers … Read more
New data reveals growing frequency and sophistication of DDoS attacks – costing businesses nearly a quarter million dollars per attack Zayo Group, a leading global communications infrastructure provider, today released its biannual Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Insights Report, revealing a nearly 82% surge in attack frequency between 2023 and 2024. Attack volume almost doubled … Read more
The company behind Arma and DayZ suffered a disruptive cyberattack Bohemia Interactive game’s servers are inaccessible for days The community is speculating about the causes of the outage If you’re a DayZ or Arma Reforger player, you may have noticed issues connecting to your favorite games these past couple of days, as the company’s servers … Read more
An ongoing distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack targets Bohemia Interactive’s infrastructure, preventing players of DayZ and Arma Reforger from playing the games online. Bohemia Interactive is a Czech video game developer and publisher known for its popular Arma Series tactical shooters and DayZ, a standalone survival game from an Arma 2 mod. Starting last … Read more
Over 13,000 infected devices were harnessed for the largest DDoS attack on record, which targeted an internet service provider in East Asia. According to web infrastructure provider Cloudflare, the Oct. 29 attack generated 5.6Tbps in traffic against the ISP, with the goal of overwhelming its servers and forcing them offline. However, Cloudflare detected and automatically … Read more
The largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack to date peaked at 5.6 terabits per second and came from a Mirai-based botnet with 13,000 compromised devices. The UDP-based attack occurred last year on October 29 and targeted an internet service provider (ISP) in Eastern Asia in an attempt to bring its services offline. Security and connectivity services provider … Read more