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News alert: Gcore Radar reveals 56% rise in DDoS attacks – gaming industry targeted the most

The Last Watchdog

11, 2025, CyberNewswire — Gcore , the global edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, today announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2024 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale and disruption in 2024, and businesses need to act fast to protect themselves from this evolving threat.

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Solid Data Security: The Foundation of a Safe Digital World

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To make matters worse, geopolitical tensions are driving a dramatic increase in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. In its 2024 DDoS Threat Landscape Report , Imperva revealed a 111% increase in the attacks it mitigated from H1 2023 to 2024. Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations.

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How Data Visualization Helps Prevent Cyber Attacks

Centraleyes

Supply Chain Risk Monitoring: A financial services firm tracked vendor vulnerabilities through a visualization platform, flagging suppliers with outdated software. For instance: Heatmaps can visualize areas of high activity that may indicate a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: WEF Offers AI Security Best Practices, as DORA Regulation Places Strict Cyber Rules on Banks

Security Boulevard

There, it posts breach announcements and offers a free DDoS tool. Funksec, a new cyber extortion gang, ranked first with 18% of all attacks followed by CL0P, Akira and RansomHub, according to NCC Groups December 2024 Monthly Threat Pulse report. NCC Group calls the December data a wake-up call.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 508 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

President Donald Trump granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Ross Ulbricht, Silk Road creator Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 Day 1: organizers awarded $382,750 for 16 zero-days Subaru Starlink flaw allowed experts to remotely hack cars Two ransomware groups abuse Microsofts Office 365 platform to gain access to target organizations Cloudflare (..)

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Cloudflare: Mirai Botnet Launched Record-Breaking DDoS Attack

eSecurity Planet

Cloudflare last month fought off a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a botnet that was bombarding 17.2 million requests per second (rps) at one of the internet infrastructure company’s customers in the financial services space. DDoS Attacks on the Rise. That prediction proved correct.

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Akamai prevented the largest DDoS attack on a US financial company

Security Affairs

Akamai announced it has mitigated the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on a U.S. financial company. Cybersecurity firm Akamai successfully identified and prevented a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting an unnamed, leading American financial institution.

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