What is a DDoS attack? If you've been playing an online game and experienced high latency, or even a drop in connection, you might've been the victim of a DDoS attack. These incidents can be highly ...

This content has been selected, created and edited by the Finextra editorial team based upon its relevance and interest to our community. ChatGPT saw an outage last week which has been blamed on a ...

Final Fantasy 14 finds itself in the crosshairs of an ongoing wave of DDoS attacks on its servers, as players share their ...

AI is changing the DDoS landscape. The technology has transformed attack capabilities, with cybercriminals using it to ...

Every time you load a webpage, send an email, or stream a video, the Domain Name System (DNS) silently performs its critical duty, translating easy-to-read names into complex numerical IP addresses.

Dubbed Aisuru, the botnet is part of a new class of DDoS-capable malware, referred to as TurboMirai. The threats are reminiscent of the infamous Mirai IoT botnet, and can launch DDoS attacks that ...

You know there’s a risk of DDoS attacks targeting your organization. You know you have appropriate protection technology in place. But do you know if there are any holes in your defense that can be ...

Opinion Agatha Christie stuck a dagger in the notion that crime doesn't pay. With sales of between two and four billion books – fittingly, the exact number is a mystery – she built a career out of ...

In what’s becoming something of a habit for OpenAI’s popular chatbot, ChatGPT is down for some users still today, with the company’s latest status update pointing to “periodic outages” still being ...

THE Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has reported there were several attempts to disrupt the ...

Bots such as AkiraBot use AI to bypass CAPTCHA and flood sites with spam. And in late August 2025, ESET researchers uncovered PromptLock, the first ransomware written by AI, demonstrating how ...