Knowing the inner workings of botnets and their attack styles can help you formulate a defense -- or outlast an attack My friends Paul and Robin Laudanski at CastleCops have been under a huge DDoS ...

Pro-Iran hacktivism and AI bots are amplifying cyberattacks targeting online banking, payments, and applicationsCAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 20, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cybercriminals are now targeting ...

In May 2026, federal prosecutors in Alaska unsealed charges against an Oregon man accused of running a DDoS-for-hire botnet ...

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — ...

Cloudflare's CEO didn't expect this to happen until next year.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Social media outlets. Anna Barclay/Getty Images Since at least 2021, the federal government says, the "Rapper Bot" DDoS-for-hire ...

The company’s latest cybersecurity report points to a sharp escalation in AI-driven attacks against banks and financial institutions, with longer-lasting DDoS campaigns and increased API exploitation.

A 22-year-old Ethan Foltz was recently arrested He's being suspected of building, and renting, an enormous DDoS-for-hire botnet called Rapper Bot Since the arrest, there were no reports of new Rapper ...

A just-discovered evasive malware takes advantage of a key Internet-facing protocol to gain entry onto enterprise systems to mine cryptocurrency, launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, ...

According to Gcore, in 2022, the number and volume of DDoS attacks will roughly double compared to 2021. The average attack power will grow from 150–300 Gbps to 500–700 Gbps. Both ordinary users and ...