Tag: DDoS
71 million requests per second, a new record for a DDoS attack
Hosting services company Cloudflare has faced the largest DDoS attack ever recorded. The hackers targeted several cryptocurrency sites, video game companies and cloud providers. To believe that the hackers are…
Paid DDOS attack services fall after police intervention
Europol, the US Department of Justice and several police departments announce that they have neutralized several paying services to carry out DDOS attacks. Arrests took place. “Power-Off”. This is the…
Europol closes 50 DDoS services following international crackdown
Alexander Boero December 15, 2022 at 2:40 p.m. 1 © Adobe Stock The European criminal police agency Europol has put an end to the activities of many sites that sold…
The website of the European Parliament victim of a pro-Russian DDoS attack
Alexander Boero November 24, 2022 at 4:55 p.m. 3 Roberta Metsola, President of the European Parliament © European Union 2022 – Source: EP The European Parliament has had its website…
ZD Tech: When Google thwarts the biggest DDoS attack ever recorded!
Hello everyone and welcome to ZDTech, ZDNet’s daily editorial podcast. I’m Pierre and today I’m going to tell you how Google recently managed to block nothing less than the biggest…
Overwatch 2: catastrophic launch, bugs, protective SMS, Blizzard takes stock
After years of waiting for something new in Overwatchplayers were able to discover a sequel this Tuesday, October 4 with Overwatch 2a new title free-to-play available on computers and consoles.…
Overwatch 2 launch disrupted by DDOS attacks
Blizzard had some problems with the launch of its latest game. Overwatch 2, the FPS that takes over from its predecessor released six years ago, had a difficult start. Many…
Blizzard Explains Overwatch 2’s Failed Launch Due to DDoS Attacks
One would have thought, in front of the endless queues at the entrance to the servers which could have lasted several tens of minutes, that the public had rushed to…
Overwatch 2: The game has been under fire from several DDoS attacks since its launch
We are now used to seeing failed launches of online games. We therefore expected that Blizzard doesn’t really manage to ensure a good launch for Overwatch 2, given the expectation…
Activision-Blizzard: Overwatch, Call of Duty and World of Warcraft servers hit by DDOS attack
The morning will have been complicated for Activision-Blizzardwho has just faced a big attack DDOS on the servers of its PC games for several hours. At around 9:45 a.m., the…
Google blocked the biggest DDoS attack ever on the web
Google Cloud has revealed that it blocked the largest distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack on record, which peaked at 46 million requests per second (RPS). The attack of 1er…
Google just blocked the largest DDoS attack in history
Google has just put a stop to the largest DDoS attack in the history of the net, with more than 46 million HTTPS requests launched per second! In June 2022,…