US disrupts botnets accused of hijacking cameras, routers to attack victims worldwide, including defense department

Federal authorities say they have disrupted four major botnets blamed for massive distributed denial-of-service attacks, including some that reached a record-breaking 30 terabits per second and ...
Wall Street Journal

Defending Against Denial of Service Attacks

Defending Against Denial of Service Attacks Attacks aimed at knocking websites and services offline are as old as the internet and yet remain a threat. Experts discuss the most targeted industries, ...
Hackaday

This Week In Security: Linux Flaws, Python Ownage, And A Botnet Shutdown

Qualys reports the discovery by their threat research unit of vulnerabilities in the Linux AppArmor system used by SUSE, Debian, Ubuntu, and ...
Arabian Post

Global crackdown dismantles massive IoT botnet network

Authorities across multiple jurisdictions have dismantled a vast network of compromised Internet of Things devices linked to some of the largest distributed denial-of-service attacks ever recorded, ...
The Eagle-Tribune

DDoS Attacks Grow 70% Larger in 2025 as Enterprises Move into the Crosshairs, Zayo Reports

Based on analysis of global network traffic in 2025, the report revealed a sharp escalation in the scale and focus of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, with attackers increasingly shifting ...
Computer Weekly

Microsoft patches zero-days in .NET and SQL Server

Zero-days in .NET and SQL Server, and a handful of critical RCE bugs, form the nucleus of Microsoft's March Patch Tuesday update.