Application-layer and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals Application-layer (L7) and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks are among the most insidious forms of denial-of-service threats. Rather than saturating bandwidth, they ...
Introduction: Questions you always wanted to ask about DDoS DDoS is one of those topics that everyone in the industry has heard about, but few feel confident they fully understand. ...
Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date — a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only ...
We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen — via botnets, traffic floods, vectors — but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every ...
The Arch Linux project has confirmed that its core infrastructure has been under sustained DDoS attack for more than a week. The campaign, which began on August 16, 2025, has ...
DDoS defence explained: how to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack? DDoS attacks are easier than ever to launch, harder to trace, and can cause real damage if you’re not ...
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old Oregon man for operating RapperBot, a large-scale botnet-for-hire that powered more than 370,000 DDoS attacks between April and August 2025. Built ...
MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023’s Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while ...
How connection state exhaustion attacks threaten your firewalls and proxies Transport and state-exhaustion DDoS attacks represent a growing and sophisticated category of denial-of-service threats targeting the resource limitations of network ...
SafeBreach Labs researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag disclosed a new class of Windows denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash critical infrastructure or conscript publicly accessible Windows ...