Kimwolf Botnet Hijacks 1.8 Million Android TVs, Launches Large-Scale DDoS Attacks
A new distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnet known as Kimwolf has enlisted a massive army of no less than 1.8 million...
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The Rise of Precision Botnets in DDoS
For a long time, DDoS attacks were easy to recognize. They were loud, messy, and built on raw throughput. Attackers...
Cloudflare mitigates record 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack by the AISURU botnet
Cloudflare mitigates record 29.7 Tbps DDoS attack by the AISURU botnet Pierluigi Paganini December 04, 2025 Cloudflare blocked a record...
Microsoft Fends Off Massive DDoS Attack by Aisuru Botnet Operators
Microsoft late last month was the victim of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by threat actors using the...
Microsoft Mitigates Record 15.72 Tbps DDoS Attack Driven by AISURU Botnet
Microsoft on Monday disclosed that it automatically detected and neutralized a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in...
Microsoft mitigated the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, 15.7 Tbps
Microsoft mitigated the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded, 15.7 Tbps Pierluigi Paganini November 17, 2025 Microsoft says the Aisuru botnet...
Aisuru botnet is behind record 20Tb/sec DDoS attacks
Aisuru botnet is behind record 20Tb/sec DDoS attacks Pierluigi Paganini October 28, 2025 A new Mirai-based IoT botnet, dubbed Aisuru,...
Aisuru Botnet Shifts from DDoS to Residential Proxies
Aisuru, the botnet responsible for a series of record-smashing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks this year, recently was overhauled to support...
Russian Rosselkhoznadzor hit by DDoS attack, food shipments across Russia delayed
Russian Rosselkhoznadzor hit by DDoS attack, food shipments across Russia delayed Pierluigi Paganini October 25, 2025 A DDoS attack on...
How to Detect and Mitigate Hit and Run DDoS Attacks
Most DDoS attacks are short in duration. According to Cloudflare, 92% of layer 3/4 attacks and 75% of HTTP...
AffAction Fights Back Against Sophisticated Scrapers with DataDome and Wins
AffAction, an online marketing company managing over 6,000 domains, used to struggle with persistent scraping bots targeting user data....
DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS
The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices...
Rethinking DDoS Defense: Why Scale Isn’t the Only Metric That Matters
In recent months, headlines have drawn attention to record-breaking DDoS attacks, often measured in terabits per second (Tbps) and accompanied...
Cloudflare mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack at 22.2 Tbps
Cloudflare mitigates largest-ever DDoS attack at 22.2 Tbps Pierluigi Paganini September 24, 2025 Cloudflare blocked a new record-breaking DDoS attack...
Polish authorities arrested 4 people behind DDoS-for-hire platforms
Polish authorities arrested 4 people behind DDoS-for-hire platforms Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2025 Polish police arrested 4 people behind DDoS-for-hire...
