Earlier this week, Microsoft Defender for IoT researchers discovered malicious downloads that affect Windows and Linux devices. These downloads, among other propagation methods, ensnare local devices ...

The attack tops the 22 Tbps assault from September. Cloudflare also estimates that the Aisuru botnet has grown to span 1 to 4 ...

Wynncraft, one of the largest Minecraft servers, was recently hit by a 2.5 Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. It was a multi-vector attack that lasted for about two minutes and ...

Hadoop systems are the latest kind of servers to become infected with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) bots. These kinds of servers are generally stable, as well as resource rich, and so would ...

Performance and security company Cloudflare reported that it stopped a 2.5Tbps distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack in Q3 2022 launched by a Mirai botnet against Minecraft server Wynncraft. The ...

A "Minecraft" DDoS attack targeted a certain multi-day Twitch gaming tournament in the small European country of Andorra lately, which basically caused the entire nation's internet to shut down.

IoT botnets are not new. Nor are DDoS attacks. But the two are on a trajectory that is raising the stakes in DDoS protection and bot takeover prevention. Larry Pesce remembers the day when the ...