#ddos
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Millions of PHP2Shell Attack Attempts — Yet Not One Has Worked
Attackers are mass-probing the freshly disclosed PHP2Shell flaws to pull servers into a Mirai botnet, but a reliable working exploit still eludes them.
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Ubuntu Website Down Amid Sustained DDoS Attack
The official Ubuntu website, ISO downloads, and related resources have become unavailable amid a confirmed, ongoing distributed denial-of-service attack.
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FBI Takes Down the NightmareStresser DDoS Platform
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized the domains of one of the oldest DDoS-for-hire services. The operation was part of the international PowerOFF campaign.
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Read the Docs Weathered the Largest DDoS Attack in Its History
In June 2026, the documentation host Read the Docs spent nearly ten days fending off a distributed attack that peaked at 5.5 million requests per minute. The team shared what worked and what didn't.
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The Sality Botnet Neutralized by Its Own P2P Protocol
The US Justice Department has announced the takedown of the peer-to-peer Sality network, active since 2003. Investigators turned the botnet's resilient P2P architecture against itself.
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DDoS Attack Disrupts Norway's Government Digital Services
Since Monday, a powerful distributed attack has been knocking out the shared digital infrastructure of the Norwegian state — from electronic IDs to tax services. It is the third time this summer that the authorities have faced such a blow.
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Threema Messenger Hit by Large-Scale DDoS Attack
The Swiss secure messaging app Threema suffered several days of disruption from a series of DDoS attacks, whose perpetrator kept changing tactics to bypass the service's defenses.
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DDoS Attack Paralyzes Access to Norway's Government Services
Norway's national authentication portal ID-porten and its associated services suffered several days of intermittent outages due to a DDoS attack. Users were unable to log in to electronic government services.
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Tengu Botnet Reboots Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process
A new Mirai-based botnet abuses the hardware watchdog: kill its main process and the infected device reboots, giving the malware a chance to start up all over again.
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HollowByte Vulnerability in OpenSSL Allows a Denial of Service with an 11-Byte Packet
Researchers have discovered the HollowByte vulnerability, which allows unauthenticated attackers to cause a denial of service on OpenSSL-based servers using an extremely small malicious packet.
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148 npm Packages Turned Students' Browsers into a DDoS Botnet
JFrog researchers uncovered a campaign of 148 npm packages disguised as student web proxies that, for about two weeks in May, turned visitors' browsers into nodes of a DDoS botnet.