DDoS attacks can be difficult to diagnose ... leading to speculation that open-source advocates were responsible for the attack.

Cloudflare has claimed to have recently mitigated the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack in history. In a company blog post, Cloudflare outlined how, throughout September 2024 ...

"At 7:45 p.m. Eastern Time we noticed an abnormal spike in queries and immediately identified it as a DDoS attack," Allen Goldberg, Neustar's vice president of corporate communications, told PC ...

It initially listed seven local councils which it said it had digitally disrupted: Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Salford, Bury, ...

DDoS attacks targeting DNS servers ... Reflective amplification attacks: Spoofing the victim’s IP address in DNS requests and exploiting open DNS resolvers to amplify the traffic with small queries ...