Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Report: Botnet size grows tenfold as DDoS attacks reach 2Tbps

A massive DDoS network of 13.5-million devices has been used to launch a 2Tbps attack on an unnamed target for 40 minutes ...

Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary ...

Bluesky Outage: Coordinated Traffic Attack Causes Widespread Errors

Bluesky’s DDoS attack caused outages for a second day, disrupting feeds, notifications, and search across the platform.

Bluesky confirms DDoS attack is cause of continued app outages

Bluesky has been experiencing ongoing service disruptions since just before 3 a.m. ET. on April 15.
pv magazine USA

Cyber threats for PV: What are distributed denial-of-service attacks and how do they work

Denial-of-service attacks overwhelm networked systems with massive traffic from compromised devices, disrupting communication ...
SecurityWeek

After Bluesky, Mastodon Targeted in DDoS Attack

The decentralized social media platform Mastodon has been targeted in a major distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ...
Infosecurity Magazine

DDoS-For-Hire Services Disrupted by International Police Action in ‘Operation PowerOff’

Coordinated action by FBI, Europol and others seizes infrastructure, makes arrests – and sends warning letters to known DDoS ...
The Hacker News

Operation PowerOFF Seizes 53 DDoS Domains, Exposes 3 Million Criminal Accounts

DDoS domains seized in Operation PowerOFF across 21 countries, exposing 3 million accounts and disrupting 75,000 users' ...

MazeBolt Continuously Validates DDoS Protection Against AI-driven DDoS Threats, for Leading Greek Financial Institution

MazeBolt, the leading provider of AI-powered DDoS Resilience solutions, today announced that one of Greece’s largest financial institutions added MazeBolt RADAR™ as an autonomous layer to their ...