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DDoS Attacks Now Key Weapons in Geopolitical Conflicts, NETSCOUT Warns
Hackers now use AI and botnets to launch powerful DDoS attacks, bypassing security and overwhelming servers as law ...
DDoS attacks now a dominant means of waging political cyber-warfare
Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are becoming a dominant method of cyberattack linked to sociopolitical events.
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What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X
The social network X suffered intermittent outages on Monday, a situation owner Elon Musk attributed to a “massive cyberattack.” Musk said in an initial X post that the attack was perpetrated ...
The Daily Dot1mon
Who is Dark Storm Team? Hacking collective takes credit for massive X DDoS attack
When it popped back up, Elon Musk said the site had been hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. “There was (still is) a massive cyberattack against X,” Musk wrote. “We get ...
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DDOS attacks targeting critical infrastructure play a dominant role in geopolitical conflicts
Throughout the past year, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were intricately tied to social/political events, a report showed on Wednesday. Netscout’s 2H2024 DDoS Threat Intelligence ...
The Star1y
DDoS cyber-attacks on the rise as criminals mimic state-level hackers
DUBLIN: Recent months have seen a surge in attempted direct denial of service (DDoS) cyber-attacks, according to web security business Cloudflare. In a report covering the second quarter of 2023 ...