Executive Summary Since our seven-part analysis of the DDoS-for-hire landscape in December 2024, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into the booter/stresser ecosystem has accelerated significantly. What was then an emerging trend has now become an operational reality across multiple stages of the attack...

Executive Summary On April 28, 2025, a large-scale power outage disrupted Spain, Portugal, and parts of France, disconnecting millions from the grid and interrupting critical infrastructure and the national internet at large. Triggered by a rapid imbalance in electricity generation, the blackout began at 10:33 UTC (12...

Executive Summary Attackers didn’t need new exploits to drive more than 27,000 botnet-driven distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in March 2025. Instead, they weaponized years-old vulnerabilities to launch smarter, longer-lasting campaigns hitting service providers with an average of one attack every two...

Geopolitical DDoS attacks continue to become increasingly prevalent. ASERT research has discovered that Romania is the latest victim of the recent surge in these attacks.

NETSCOUT observed an unprecedented rise in compromised devices performing reconnaissance scans, signaling a dangerous new wave of large-scale cyberattacks leveraging weaponized cloud infrastructure.