Today's Steam outage may have been part of a massive DDoS attack targeting Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and other game companies

As seen in outage reports on Downdetector, the timing is awfully coincidental.

Record-breaking DDoS attack equivalent to 1 million 4K streams at once

The DDoS attack lasted 40 seconds and was equivalent to streaming 1 million 4K videos simultaneously: Despite the short ...
Redmond Magazine

Inside Azure DDoS Protection: Scalable Defense Against Modern Attacks

Distributed denial-of-service attacks continue to challenge IT teams, overwhelming resources and disrupting services if left unchecked. Microsoft's Azure DDoS Protection is designed to address this ...
Bleeping Computer

Cloudflare mitigates new record-breaking 22.2 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare has mitigated a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at a record-breaking 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per second (Bpps). DDoS attacks ...
NextBigFuture

Link11 Reports 225% more DDoS attacks in H1 2025 with new tactics against infrastructure

The threat landscape surrounding distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks intensified significantly in the first half of 2025, according to the latest Link11 European Cyber Report. Documented ...

Cloudflare says it has (once again) blocked the largest-ever DDoS attack in history

Cloudflare has said it recently successfully stopped the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever recorded.
NextBigFuture

1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon

FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in Western Europe. The disclosure comes ...
Gulf Business on MSN

AI-powered malware PromptLock signals a new era of cyber risk

PromptLock may be just the first of many AI-powered malware strains. Its polymorphic, adaptive design forces organisations to ...
ZDNet

5 ways to spot software supply chain attacks and stop worms - before it's too late

Shai-Hulud is the worst-ever npm JavaScript attack. This software supply chain worm attack is still ongoing. Here are some ways you can prevent such attacks. For those of you who aren't Dune fans, ...
Hosted on MSN

Another massive DDoS attack that reached 1.5 Bpps has been thwarted

FastNetMon detected record 1.5 billion packet per second DDoS attack Traffic came from hijacked IoT devices and MikroTik routers across 11,000 networks FastNetMon warns ISP level filtering is ...
SiliconANGLE

Endpoint cybersecurity firm Koi raises $48M to stop attacks against enterprise networks

Koi Security Inc., a startup providing cybersecurity for enterprise endpoints, announced Wednesday it has raised $48 million in early-stage funding to protect businesses against the growing risk ...
Bleeping Computer

Known. Emerging. Unstoppable? Ransomware Attacks Still Evade Defenses

No, it's not new or particularly exotic, but after years of attacks, ransomware continues to rank among the most destructive threats facing global organizations today. Even with security teams pouring ...