Hacking group NoName057(16) remains the most prolific DDoS player as automation, AI, and rogue LLMs make Tbps attacks a common occurrence

NetScout reports eight million DDoS attacks in 2025 so far, with NoName057(16) dominating, AI automation escalating risks, and infrastructure destabilized globally.

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Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack Disrupted its Website, Repository, and Forums

The Arch Linux Project has officially confirmed that its primary infrastructure services have been subjected to an ongoing distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that has ...

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Arch Linux Services Hit by Week-Long DDoS Attack

Arch Linux—the community-driven, lightweight distribution renowned for its rolling-release model—has confirmed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack has been ...

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Arch Linux Project Responding to Week-Long DDoS Attack

The Arch Linux Project has been targeted in a DDoS attack that disrupted its website, repository, and forums. The post Arch Linux Project Responding to Week-Long DDoS Attack ...

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AI-Powered DDoS: How Attackers Evolve and Defenders Fight Back

DDoS attacks were once crude instruments—digital sledgehammers that would flood a target with massive amounts of traffic until it crashed. While these brute-force assaults ...

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AWS, Cloudflare, Digital Ocean, and Google helped Feds investigate alleged Rapper Bot DDoS perp

PLUS: Comet AI browser fooled; Microsoft sets sail for quantum safety; Sailor sent down for espionage Infosec in brief  PLUS… This article has been indexed from The Register ...

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Arch Linux remains under attack as DDoS enters week 2 – here’s a workaround

Something mysterious is happening to the popular Linux distro’s website. Here’s what we know so far. This article has been indexed from Latest news Read the ...

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New QUIC-LEAK Vulnerability Let Attackers Exhaust Server Memory and Trigger DoS Attack

A critical pre-handshake vulnerability in the LSQUIC QUIC implementation that allows remote attackers to crash servers through memory exhaustion attacks.  The ...

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Hacker Charged in Connection with DDoS-for-Hire ‘Rapper Bot’ Scheme

Federal investigators have dismantled one of the world’s most powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets and charged its alleged administrator with ...

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Oregon Man Charged in Rapper Bot DDoS-for-Hire Case

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with administering the Rapper Bot DDoS-for-hire Botnet This article has been indexed from www.infosecurity-magazine.com Read the ...

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New QUIC-LEAK Vulnerability Let Attackers Exhaust Server Memory and Trigger DoS Attack

A critical pre-handshake vulnerability in the LSQUIC QUIC implementation that allows remote attackers to crash servers through memory exhaustion attacks.  The ...

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Oregon Man Charged in Rapper Bot DDoS-for-Hire Case

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been charged with administering the Rapper Bot DDoS-for-hire Botnet

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Hacker Charged in Connection with DDoS-for-Hire ‘Rapper Bot’ Scheme

Federal investigators have dismantled one of the world’s most powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets and charged its alleged administrator with ...

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22-year-old Operator of ‘Rapper Bot’ Botnet Charged for Launching 3 Tbps DDoS Attack

Federal authorities have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating one of the most powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets ever discovered, marking a ...

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Operator of ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Botnet Faces Charges

Federal authorities have charged a 22-year-old Oregon man with operating one of the most powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) botnets ever discovered, marking a ...

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BSidesSF 2025: How To Pull Off A Near Undetectable DDoS Attack (And How To Stop It)

Creator, Author and Presenter: Simon Wijckmans Our deep appreciation to Security BSides - San Francisco and the Creators, Authors and Presenters for publishing their BSidesSF ...

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Alleged Rapper Bot DDoS botnet master arrested, charged

US federal prosecutors have charged a man with running Rapper Bot, a powerful botnet that was rented out to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks ...

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Hacker behind “Rapper Bot” DDoS-for-hire Botnet which carried out over 370,000 attacks arrested

Rapper Bot is described as "one of the most powerful DDoS botnets to ever exist".

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DOJ Charges 22-Year-Old for Running RapperBot Botnet Behind 370,000 DDoS Attacks

A 22-year-old man from the U.S. state of Oregon has been charged with allegedly developing and overseeing a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)-for-hire botnet called ...

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Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service

A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot,” a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed ...

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