Security researchers aren't buying Musk's spin on the cyberattack that took down X

One day after X went down for hours, security researchers are throwing cold water on Elon Musk’s public comments about who might be behind the DDoS attack. On Monday, as X was still struggling to re [...]

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 mastodon.social instance. As TechCrunch notes, the platform began reporting issues early [...]

The 11 runtime attacks breaking AI security — and how CISOs are stopping them or can stop them

Enterprise security teams are losing ground to AI-enabled attacks — not because defenses are weak, but because the threat model has shifted. As AI agents move into production, attackers are exploiti [...]

Cybercriminals targeted a gaming hosting provider with one of the biggest DDoS attacks ever - 6TBps assault ranks in the top 10 of the largest DDoS onslaughts recorded

Gcore’s network withstood a record DDoS assault, highlighting escalating short-burst attacks and growing threats to gaming infrastructure. [...]

AI models block 87% of single attacks, but just 8% when attackers persist

One malicious prompt gets blocked, while ten prompts get through. That gap defines the difference between passing benchmarks and withstanding real-world attacks — and it's a gap most enterprise [...]

Bluesky blames DDoS attack for server outages

Bluesky is once again having a wobble. The platform said some of its systems are down and that it’s “investigating an incident with service in one of our reginos” (that’s Bluesky’s typo, not [...]

Researchers broke every AI defense they tested. Here are 7 questions to ask vendors.

Security teams are buying AI defenses that don't work. Researchers from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind published findings in October 2025 that should stop every CISO mid-procurement. Thei [...]

Web DDoS attacks see major surge as AI allows more powerful attacks

Layer 7 Web DDoS attacks increased five-fold in the span of a year as hacktivists use AI to lower the barrier to entry. [...]

Prosecutors charge man who allegedly used botnet to take down X this spring

An Oregon man has been charged in a federal complaint today on allegations of operating a botnet for hire that conducted cyberattacks beginning at least in 2021. Ethan Foltz has been accused of runnin [...]