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DDoS

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166 articles decelerating

DDoS has appeared in 166 articles since 2014-12. Coverage peaked in 2023Q4 with 8 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Cloudflare, Mirai, Twitter, Microsoft.

Articles
166
mentions
Velocity
-33.3%
growth rate
Acceleration
-0.333
velocity change
Sources
55
publications

Coverage Timeline

2026-04-18
TechCrunch 4 related

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data

2026-04-17
TechCrunch 7 related

Bluesky says a sophisticated DDoS attack is to blame for continued app outages but it has not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private data

Bluesky's website and app are still struggling on Friday after experiencing service interruptions that chief operating officer Rose Wang attributed to an ongoing cyberattack.

2026-02-22
Ars Technica 11 related

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …

2026-02-21
Ars Technica 9 related

English-language Wikipedia bans Archive.today after editors discover it was used to direct a DDoS attack and tampered with snapshots; 695K+ links to be removed

The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct …

2026-01-30
BleepingComputer 1 related

Cloudflare says it mitigated a 31.4 Tbps DDoS attack from the Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet in December 2025, making it the largest attack ever disclosed publicly

The Aisuru/Kimwolf botnet launched a new massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 31.4 Tbps and 200 million requests per second, setting a new record.

2025-12-19
The Guardian 7 related

Denmark says Russia was behind “destructive and disruptive” cyberattacks on a water utility in 2024 and DDoS attacks in the lead-up to local November elections

Intelligence service says attacks were work of groups connected to Russian state in ‘clear evidence’ of hybrid war

2025-11-18
Security Affairs 13 related

Microsoft says it mitigated a 15.7 Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru botnet on a single Australian Azure endpoint in October, the largest cloud DDoS ever recorded

Last month, Azure stopped one of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded … Mastodon: Rob Ricci / @ricci@discuss.systems : Azure: Our datacenters got DDoSed by 500k IP addresses  —  Everyone else: We ar...

2025-09-20
The Verge 19 related

Meta CTO says the technical issues during live demos of its new smart glasses were due to a self-inflicted DDoS and a bug that put Zuckerberg's glasses to sleep

and it wasn't the Wi-Fi Lakshmi Varanasi / Business Insider : Meta's CTO: We'd ‘love’ iMessage on Ray-Ban glasses, but Apple won't allow it David Heaney / UploadVR : Meta Explains Why Its Connect Live...

2025-05-08
Ars Technica 7 related

An interview with curl project founder Daniel Stenberg, who likens “AI slop” in HackerOne submissions to a DDoS attack, echoing Seth Larson and others' concerns

“A threshold has been reached.  We are effectively being DDoSed.  If we could, we would charge them for this waste of our time …

2025-03-11
Bloomberg 36 related

Elon Musk blames a “massive cyberattack” with “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” for a series of outages on X on March 10

Outages have been preventing X feeds from loading across web … Jonathan Greig / The Record : Musk blames X outages on alleged ‘massive’ cyberattack Newsweek : Dark Storm Team Claims DDoS Attack on X, ...

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DDoS has appeared in 167 Techmeme articles since December 2014. The biggest stories include Researchers: Friday's internet outage, caused by DDoS attack on DynDNS, was powered in... and China is now projecting its Internet power abroad using state-sponsored DDoS attacks,.... Frequently covered alongside Cloudflare, Microsoft, Google, Tbps, and Mirai. Coverage has shifted toward regulation themes and away from safety, competition.

Key Moments

2024Q3consumer +25pts; competition -100pts
2024Q4safety +20pts; consumer -5pts
2025Q1safety -20pts; consumer +30pts

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