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Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter

By Duncan Riley | Aug 11 2026

Cloudflare Inc. reported today that distributed denial-of-service attacks above 1 terabit per second grew sixfold between the first and second quarters of 2026, to 805 from 130. That took the half-year total to 935 attacks over 1 Tbps, against 219 in the fourth quarter of last year. Cloudflare said in the report [...]

MazeBolt launches RADAR VectorAI to test enterprise defenses against AI-generated DDoS attacks

By Duncan Riley | Jun 2 2026

Israeli distributed denial-of-service resilience company MazeBolt Technologies Ltd. today launched RADAR VectorAI, a new module that uses artificial intelligence to generate previously unseen DDoS attack vectors and run them against customers’ production environments to expose gaps in their defenses. The release comes as enterprise security teams absorb the implications of Anthropic PBC’s [...]

DDoS attack knocks France’s postal service La Poste offline during holiday peak

By Duncan Riley | Dec 23 2025

France’s national postal service, La Poste and its banking arm, La Banque Postale, were knocked offline on Monday in a distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted services at the height of the Christmas season. The attack rendered La Poste’s online services, including its website, mobile applications, mail tracking and the Digiposte digital vault, [...]

Cloudflare on the top internet trends: AI bots, post-quantum adoption and DDoS campaigns

By Duncan Riley | Dec 15 2025

With 2025 winding down, cloud connectivity provider Cloudflare Inc. today released its annual year in review, detailing a colorful 12 months of surging artificial intelligence-driven traffic, rapid adoption of post-quantum cryptography and some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded. The company’s sixth annual Cloudflare Radar Year in Review analyzes internet trends across [...]

X hit by large-scale DDoS attack disrupting services for hours

By Duncan Riley | Mar 10 2025

Services at X Corp., formerly Twitter, were heavily disrupted today after the company was targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack for which a pro-Palestinian hacking group has taken credit. Issues at X first appeared early this morning EDT, as users reported issues with both the X app and the website. Reports then [...]

ChatGPT API vulnerability could enable large-scale DDoS attacks, security researcher warns

By Duncan Riley | Jan 21 2025

A security flaw in OpenAI’s ChatGPT application programming interface could be used to initiate a distributed denial-of-service attack on websites, according to a researcher. The discovery was made by Benjamin Flesch, a security researcher in Germany, who detailed the vulnerability and how it could be exploited on GitHub. According to Flesch, the flaw [...]

Akamai introduces Behavioral DDoS Engine and AI Assistant to strengthen security portfolio

By Duncan Riley | Oct 16 2024

Content delivery network and cloud services provider Akamai Technologies Inc. today announced two major updates for its security portfolio that enhance protection against sophisticated threats and streamline security operations through advanced machine learning and AI-driven insights. The first update, the Behavioral DDoS Engine, uses machine learning to provide automatic, proactive protection against application-layer distributed [...]

Internet Archive experiences outages after DDoS attacks, data breach

By Maria Deutscher | Oct 10 2024

The Internet Archive today experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack that took two of its services offline. The malicious traffic surge is the latest in a series of cybersecurity incidents to have hit the nonprofit over the past few days. It previously experienced at least one other DDoS attack and, more notably, a [...]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and APIs affected by ‘periodic outages’ after DDoS attack

By Maria Deutscher | Nov 9 2023

OpenAI LP’s ChatGPT chatbot and application programming interfaces are experiencing periodic outages because of a distributed denial-of-service attack. OpenAI disclosed the issue late Wednesday in a note posted to its service status page. “We are dealing with periodic outages due to an abnormal traffic pattern reflective of a DDoS attack. We are [...]

Cloudflare report reveals disturbing rise in DDoS attacks against critical sectors

By Duncan Riley | Jul 18 2023

A new report from content delivery network provider Cloudflare Inc. today details the disturbing rise in distributed denial-of-service attacks in the second quarter against critical sectors. The report describes targeted attacks by Russian-linked hacking groups, such as REvil, Killnet and Anonymous Sudan, against Western websites. A popular target in the second quarter was financial [...]

106 results for ddos

Cloudflare says 1 Tbps DDoS attacks grew sixfold in the second quarter

MazeBolt launches RADAR VectorAI to test enterprise defenses against AI-generated DDoS attacks

DDoS attack knocks France’s postal service La Poste offline during holiday peak

Cloudflare on the top internet trends: AI bots, post-quantum adoption and DDoS campaigns

X hit by large-scale DDoS attack disrupting services for hours

ChatGPT API vulnerability could enable large-scale DDoS attacks, security researcher warns

Akamai introduces Behavioral DDoS Engine and AI Assistant to strengthen security portfolio

Internet Archive experiences outages after DDoS attacks, data breach

OpenAI’s ChatGPT and APIs affected by ‘periodic outages’ after DDoS attack

Cloudflare report reveals disturbing rise in DDoS attacks against critical sectors

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