DDoS-for-hire services have found a way to abuse Plex Media servers to bounce junk traffic and amplify distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, security firm Netscout said in an alert on ...

Blizzard servers are experiencing a DDoS attack causing login failures and lengthy queues for players on the company's Battle.net service, says the Call of Duty publisher. Blizzard says it is actively ...

Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks have become more common, and Microsoft recently published a blog post looking into the trends for such attacks on its own servers. In that post, the ...

Crooks can abuse Memcached servers to launch insanely massive DDoS attacks using very few computational resources on their end. These type of DDoS attacks are possible because of the unsecured way ...

Cloudflare announced recently that they are seeing an increase in amplification attacks using memcached servers, and that this exploit has the potential to be a big problem because memcached is ...

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it's "investigating an ...

Multiplayer gaming has moved from the LAN party to hyperscale data‑centres in little more than two decades. Each evolutionary step has enlarged the audience—and the attack surface. Denial‑of‑Service ...

If he's not playing a game, he's watching a sport. If he's not watching a sport, he's playing a game. If he's doing neither of those things, he's sleeping. Pronounced ...

For those that may not know, DDoS means Distributed Denial of Service and it’s a malicious attack on a server in an attempt to overwhelm it and negatively impact the player experience in the case of ...

Update: Blizzard says the DDoS attack that had Battle.net servers down for Overwatch and Hearthstone for several hours has come to an end. Players should be able to log back in now. The DDoS attacks ...