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DDoS scrubbing service ironic target of massive attack it was built to prevent — hit with 1.5 billion packets per second from more than 11,000 distributed networks

A DDoS scrubbing service has been hit with a massive attack from over 11,000 distributed networks, with peak traffic of 1.5 ...
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Anti-DDoS outfit walloped by record packet flood

FastNetMon says 1.5 Gpps deluge from hijacked routers, IoT kit nearly drowned scrubbing shop A DDoS mitigation provider was ...
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Link11 Reports 225% more DDoS attacks in H1 2025 with new tactics against infrastructure

In the first half of 2025, the volume of attacks totaled 438 terabytes. This corresponds to the data consumption of 7 years ...
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DDoS attacks are outpacing networks as attack sizes rise by almost 70%

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are getting progressively more complex, with software-defined and cloud-driven infrastructures becoming tantalizing targets for threat actors relying on ...

DDoS defender targeted in 1.5 Bpps denial-of-service attack

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 ...
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Cloudflare blocks massive 11.5 Tb/s DDoS attack

Firm successfully mitigated hundreds of hyper-volumetric attacks last week, with the largest reaching 51 billion packets per ...
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What is a DDoS Attack? Elon Musk Claims Cyberattack Delayed Trump Interview

Joe Edwards is a Live News Reporter based in Newsweek's London Bureau. He covers topics related to weather, climate, and extreme weather events. Joe joined Newsweek in April 2024 after graduating from ...

1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon

FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website ...
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DDoS Attacks Skyrocket and Hacktivist Activity Surges Threatening Critical Global Infrastructure According to NETSCOUT’s 1H2024 Threat Intelligence Report

Hacktivists Escalate Sophisticated, Multi-Vector Assaults on Banking and Financial Services, Government, and Utilities “Hacktivist activities continue to plague global organizations with more ...