In May 2026, federal prosecutors in Alaska unsealed charges against an Oregon man accused of running a DDoS-for-hire botnet called “Rapper Bot” that allegedly powered more than 370,000 attacks against ...

Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...

Most DDoS test reports get treated like a security scan. A list of attack vectors, each one tagged as blocked or not blocked, and a verdict that reads like a grade. Pass means safe. Fail means fix it.

Cybersecurity is built to protect computer systems and networks from theft, damage, and service disruption from attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). DDoS attacks work by taking a ...

The threat landscape facing financial institutions has never been more hostile. In 2026, DDoS attacks targeting financial institutions increased 105% year-over-year — from 329 incidents in 2024 to 674 ...

Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in general, which need better defenses and actual testing ...

South African cyber security experts warn that low ransom DDoS attacks on ISPs may stem from cheap dark web tools, or ...

The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was deployed again to launch attacks against the LIHKG social media platform used by Hong Kong protesters to coordinate during this year's ...