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Gcore Mitigates Record-Breaking 6 Tbps DDoS Attack
Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 14th October 2025, CyberNewsWire...
Cloudflare Mitigates Massive 5.6 Tbps Mirai-Variant DDoS Attack
Cloudflare mitigates a record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack, highlighting the growing threat of hyper-volumetric assaults. Learn about theâŚ...
Largest Recorded DDoS Attack is 3.8 Tbps
Cloudflare just blocked the current record DDoS attack: 3.8 terabits per second. Lots of good information on the attack, and DDoS in general, at the link. News article...
Cloudflare Mitigates Record Breaking 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack
Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare fends off a massive 3.8 Tbps DDoS attack, surpassing the previous record. Learn howâŚ...
Imperva Successfully Mitigates Record-Breaking DDoS Attack in Retail Industry
In the dynamic world of cybersecurity, November 13, 2023, marked a significant milestone for Imperva as we successfully mitigated the largest application-layer DDoS attack weâve ever recorded in the retail industry. The target was a prominent Indonesian eCommerce platform, known for its diverse...
âĄTop Cybersecurity News Stories This Week â Cybersecurity Newsletter
Hey đ there, cyber friends! Welcome to this week's cybersecurity newsletter, where we aim to keep you informed and empowered in the ever-changing world of cyber threats. In today's edition, we will cover some interesting developments in the cybersecurity landscape and share some insightful analys...
Massive HTTP DDoS Attack Hits Record High of 71 Million Requests/Second
Web infrastructure company Cloudflare on Monday disclosed that it thwarted a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack that peaked at over 71 million requests per second RPS. "The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second RPS with the largest...
Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack
By Deeba Ahmed The DDoS attack originated from 121 countries and was powered by a small botnet of only 5,067 hacked⌠This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Cloudflare Thwarted Largest Ever HTTPS DDoS Attack...
Retrospective 2020: DDoS Risk Higher Than Ever
Never before has the risk of a distributed denial-of-service DDoS attack been higher. In 2020, we saw record-breaking attacks, a DDoS extortion campaign impacting thousands of organizations globally, more emergency customer turnups, and more Akamai customers attacked than any year on record -- an...
Cyberweek 2020 Attracted Both Online Shoppers and DDoS Attackers
2020 has shown both record-busting bps and pps attacks and the most prolific DDoS extortion campaign recorded by Akamai...
2019 Flare-On Challenge Solutions
We are pleased to announce the conclusion of the sixth annual Flare-On Challenge. The popularity of this event continues to grow and this year we saw a record number of players as well as finishers. We will break down the numbers later in the post, but right now letâs look at the fun stuff: the...
DDoS attacks are growing: What can businesses do?
Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS Distributed Denial of Service attack can be anything from a small nuisance to something that can break your revenue stream and damage it permanently. A DDoS attack can cripple some online businesses for a period of time long enough to se...
Biggest-Ever DDoS Attack (1.35 Tbs) Hits Github Website
On Wednesday, February 28, 2018, GitHub's code hosting website hit with the largest-ever distributed denial of service DDoS attack that peaked at record 1.35 Tbps. Interestingly, attackers did not use any botnet network, instead weaponized misconfigured Memcached servers to amplify the DDoS attac...
What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...
What to expect for this year's Black Friday and Cyber Monday
Last year during holidays, US online sales surpassed $122 billion. This represented a 12 percent increase over the previous year. But beyond the overall growth, what's more interesting is that sales at physical stores dropped by 10 percent, the result of ongoing consumer comfort with and adoption...
Comey testimony generates massive interest, massive traffic
Online viewers of former FBI Director James Comey's live testimony last week generated a massive peak of 2.5 Tbps of live streaming video traffic on the Akamai platform, despite the hearing occurring in the middle of the work week, in the middle of the work day. To put this in perspective, that 2...