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Distributed denial-of-service attacks that flood online services with traffic, and the mitigation methods—like upstream scrubbing—used to keep sites reachable.
Netscout reports that DDoS attacks exceeding 1 Tbps or 1 Gpps rose 1,286% year over year in the first half of 2026. It says many of these floods exhaust firewalls and load balancers before the link fills.
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Canonical confirmed an October 8 DDoS attack on its websites, including ubuntu.com and the Ubuntu security advisory pages and API. OMG! Ubuntu put the downtime at a little over four hours in the second DDoS to hit Canonical this year.
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SkyNet, a St. Petersburg internet provider, has been under a DDoS attack since October 6, the company said. Ukrainian group BO Team claims it also disabled more than 15,000 devices. SkyNet has not confirmed that.
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Italy's Foreign Ministry says its protection systems mitigated an attack on its website on the morning of October 8, with no disruption. Rome will now work with Romania and other EU states on proposals to formally name the actors behind cyberattacks on Italian institutions.
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Large-scale DDoS attacks took the Swiss encrypted messenger offline on Tuesday evening and again Wednesday morning. Customers on Threema On-Prem, running their own infrastructure, saw nothing.
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Three attacks on one shared dependency since June, none attributed. Digdir keeps restoring service, and the attackers keep returning to the single queue everything else waits in.
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ENISA counted 8,257 EU incidents in 2025 and found that denial of service against public-facing services supplies most of the volume, while its warning about compromised technology suppliers rests on one named Swedish case.
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The marketplace says security measures added after a DDoS attack can suspend transfers while it is under way, which is how some merchants went unpaid for weeks. The sellers' union counts 20 billion rubles outstanding and doubts the account.
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Digdir calls three days of DDoS the biggest it has seen, and says services stayed up nearly throughout. The timing tracks a prime ministerial visit, not the grievance the group published.
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