Cloudflare says 805 DDoS attacks topped 1 Tbps in Q2 2026 as high-bandwidth attacks surged, raising new concerns for network defenses.

Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year.

South African cyber security experts are raising concerns over the increasingly low ransom demands being issued by cyber extortionists targeting local internet service providers (ISPs) with ...

South Africa-based web hosting platform 1-Grid has been hit by a “large-scale” distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that impacted services. The web hosting and digital services company provides ...

A DDoS attack overwhelms a target server or network by flooding it with massive traffic from multiple compromised systems, making legitimate access nearly impossible. These network security threats ...

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it's "investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos" (that's Bluesky's typo, not mine).

The second half of 2025 marked a pivotal shift in the world of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Organizations across the globe faced a perfect storm: Artificial intelligence (AI) matured ...

Twitch star Nicholas Jynxzi had his livestream shut down again after repeated DDoS attacks interrupted his broadcast. The incident happened on January 5, 2026, while Jynxzi was live on Twitch, playing ...

Cloudflare detected 8.3 million DDoS attacks in the last quarter, reflecting a 40% year-over-year (YoY) increase in threats to networks. Cloudflare’s Quarterly DDoS Threat Report saw a 15% increase ...

Microsoft says the attack, sourced from more than 500,000 compromised IPs, exposes deep weaknesses in home IoT and raises questions about enterprise DDoS readiness. Azure has blocked its largest DDoS ...

Amid widespread YouTube outages on Monday hitting multiple countries, with the US being most affected, theories surfaced that a DOOS attack could be behind it. Representational image. (REUTERS) An X ...