Dark Storm advertises DDoS-for-hire and a $5,000 Amino demand
StealthMole tracked Telegram sales by persona GLITCH; claimed outages, including Amino, are not independently confirmed.
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SOCRadar roundup cites food, military, housing and retail cases
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Cloudflare reports 18.2 million L3 DDoS attacks in Q3
That is about 8,226 network-layer attacks an hour, up from 13.2 million in Q2, plus 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests.
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Imperva scores 100% in SecureIQLab Cloud WAAP v5.0 test
The August 2026 AMTSO-certified test ran 12 platforms through 1,608 attacks; scores fell to about 61%.
Kairos botnet infects Linux hosts through passwordless Telnet
Nozomi honeypots saw the same Go binary, which holds thousands of TCP sockets open during each attack.
Kairos DDoS botnet opens idle TCP sessions from Linux hosts
Nozomi says the Go bot arrives over Telnet with an empty root password and has no persistence.
Cloudflare mitigated 18.2 million DDoS attacks in Q3 2026
Attacks rose 208% year over year, but 98% stayed under 1 Gbps and most ended within ten minutes.
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Cloudflare blocked over 8,200 network DDoS attacks an hour in Q3
Most attacks lasted under ten minutes and stayed below 1 Gbps, while terabit-scale floods fell nearly 69% from the prior quarter.
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Cloudflare: short DDoS bursts rose 208% in Q3 2026
Attacks over 1 Tbps fell to 251 from 805 after takedowns of four large IoT botnets.
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Unit 42 warns retailers of ransomware, extortion and DDoS
As of September 30, 2026, operators had claimed 565 retail victims, with median revenue about $22 million.
STAR uses server TEEs for anonymous rate limiting at scale
The design reports authentication in tens of microseconds and about 13.9K requests per second per CPU core.
DDoS waves took North Korean state websites offline for about 32 hours
Kentik tied failures starting October 20 to traffic from Vietnam, Venezuela and elsewhere, but named no operator.
DDoS waves knock more than 40 North Korean websites offline
Kentik tied October 20 outages to synchronized traffic from Vietnam, the Philippines and Venezuela; no perpetrator was identified.
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Blackwall raises $100 million Series C at a $2.2 billion valuation
The Estonia-based vendor sells bot and AI-agent controls through hosting and cloud providers, not directly to sites.
DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity
NETSCOUT logged 9.1 million DDoS attacks in H1 2026, with terabit-scale floods up 1,286%.
Massive DDoS Attack Disrupts Ubuntu’s Canonical Websites and Security APIs
A DDoS attack disrupted Canonical’s Ubuntu websites and security APIs for just over four hours.
Canonical Hit by Second DDoS Attack in 2026, Public Websites Disrupted
Canonical's public websites were disrupted for over four hours by its second DDoS attack of 2026.
Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year
Canonical websites including ubuntu.com experienced a DDoS attack causing approximately four hours of downtime, the second this year.
Italy’s Foreign Ministry Under Cyberattack as Embassy Sites Come Under Review
Italy's Foreign Ministry says its website is under cyberattack, so far mitigated, while embassies are reviewed.
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Host Attack Graph for Botnet Propagation
A Host Attack Graph study finds topology and target selection strongly shape botnet propagation.
Cling Botnet Spoofs Google STUN Traffic to Hide Commands Sent to Infected IoT Devices
Cling IoT botnet hides operator commands in spoofed Google STUN replies while exploiting exposed routers and DVRs.
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Cloudflare Impact reaches $100 million in donations
Cloudflare's Impact programs reached $100 million in donated cybersecurity services for public-interest organizations.
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Hackers Built a Botnet That Doesn’t Just Steal Data, It Burns AI Credits
Qrator Labs uncovered x47.c, a Windows botnet sold by WraithTools that steals credentials, launches DDoS floods, and drains victims' paid AI API credits.
New AI-Powered Botnet x47.c Steals Credentials and Drains AI Account Credits
Qrator uncovered the x47.c Windows botnet, sold by WraithTools, combining DDoS, credential theft, SOCKS5 proxying, and AI API credit-draining attacks.