Anonymous is building a bigger, more vicious weapon to replace its current DDoS tool. The new attack program, called #RefRef, is being developed in time for the Blackhat conference in Las Vegas and ...

In April 2026, Europol announced the results of its latest strike against the booming DDoS-for-hire industry: four arrests, ...

Most DDoS test reports get treated like a security scan. A list of attack vectors, each one tagged as blocked or not blocked, and a verdict that reads like a grade. Pass means safe. Fail means fix it.

Cybersecurity is built to protect computer systems and networks from theft, damage, and service disruption from attacks such as distributed denial-of-service (DDoS). DDoS attacks work by taking a ...

DDoS-for-hire boom blamed for attacks on SA’s ISPs By Admire Moyo, ITWeb news editorJohannesburg, 20 May 2026The goal of a DDoS attack is to flood a website, server, or online service with massive ...

The Great Cannon Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) tool was deployed again to launch attacks against the LIHKG social media platform used by Hong Kong protesters to coordinate during this year's ...

Stung by a high-profile denial-of-service attack in December, PayPal's CISO says application layer attacks remain a major threat to businesses in general, which need better defenses and actual testing ...

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In late May 2026, U.S. and European authorities pulled off the largest coordinated strike ever against the commercial market ...