Cloudflare has announced its 2023 Q2 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape as observed across the global Cloudflare network. The DDoS landscape: a look at global patterns The second quarter of 2023 was characterized by thought-out, tailored and persistent waves of DDoS attackRead More…

Cloudflare has announced its 2023 Q1 DDoS report. This report includes insights and trends about the DDoS threat landscape — as observed across the global Cloudflare network. Threat actors kicked off 2023 with a bang. The start of the year was characterised by a series of hacktivist campaigns against WesternRead More…

NETSCOUT SYSTEMS has announced findings from its 5th Anniversary DDoS Threat Intelligence Report that point to a new era of multi-vector attacks focused on taking down victims using application-layer and botnet-based, direct-path attacks. Attack frequency has increased tenfold since NETSCOUT’s first report in 2005. With over one billion websites worldwide,Read More…

Akamai Technologies announced from the 2023 Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit the deployment of a new scrubbing centre in Dubai, positioning its DDoS protection platform (Prolexic) to deliver the strongest security protections to organisations across the Middle East. The Middle East is rising as a significant force in theRead More…

This was a weekend of record-breaking DDoS attacks. Over the weekend, Cloudflare detected and mitigated dozens of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks. The majority of attacks peaked in the ballpark of 50-70 million requests per second (rps) with the largest exceeding 71 million rps. This is the largest reported HTTP DDoS attack on record, moreRead More…