13.5M Device Botnet Drives 2 Tbps DDoS Attacks on FinTech, Qrator Finds

A new Qrator Labs report reveals that the largest DDoS botnet has grown to 13.5 million devices, and…...

New Aeternum C2 Botnet Evades Takedowns via Polygon Blockchain

Qrator Research Lab has identified Aeternum C2, a botnet that uses the Polygon blockchain for commands, making it nearly impossible to shut down...

Qrator Labs Reports Mitigating Year’s Largest DDoS Attack to Date

Qrator Labs reports it mitigated a massive record 965 Gbps DDoS attack in April 2025, the largest incident…...

Yandex Pummeled by Potent Meris DDoS Botnet

Technical details tied to a record-breaking distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attack against Russian internet behemoth Yandex are surfacing as the digital dust settles. A massive botnet, dubbed Mēris, is believed responsible, flooding Yandex with millions of HTTP requests for webpages at the sam...

Powerful New DDoS Method Adds Extortion

Attackers have seized on a relatively new method for executing distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks of unprecedented disruptive power, using it to launch record-breaking DDoS assaults over the past week. Now evidence suggests this novel attack method is fueling digital shakedowns in which...