Explore the top 7 Web Application Firewall (WAF) tools that CIOs should consider in 2025 to protect their organizations from online threats and ensure compliance with emerging regulations.

DDoS attacks systematically damage online gaming by targeting multiple levels of play infrastructure. Akamai’s research shows ...

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On October 24, 2025, Azure DDoS Protection detected and neutralized a 15.72 Tbps Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack targeting a single endpoint in Australia—making it the largest DDoS event ...

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The Mirai-born botnet Aisuru targeted networks powering online gaming giants and sending 29.6 Tbps of DDoS traffic through infected routers. A newly disclosed attack campaign linked to the IoT botnet ...

The world’s largest and most disruptive botnet is now drawing a majority of its firepower from compromised Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices hosted on U.S. Internet providers like AT&T, Comcast and ...

Microsoft has launched a new Network Security Hub, an enhanced experience that brings together Azure Firewall, Web Application Firewall (WAF) and DDoS Protection under one unified interface. This hub ...

A DDoS mitigation service provider in Europe was targeted in a massive distributed denial-of-service attack that reached 1.5 billion packets per second. The attack originated from thousands of IoTs ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

Update (Aug. 4, 2025, at 1:50 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by XMRig developer Sergei Chernykh. A mining pool behind an attempted 51% takeover of Monero is reportedly under ...

TLS ensures data encryption in transit. It does not provide DDoS protection. Azure Advanced Threat Protection Focuses on detecting identity-based threats (Azure AD), suspicious activities. Not ...