Social (in)security

TechRepublic reports that distributed denial-of-service attacks reached almost 9 million during the last six months of 2024, which is 12.7% higher than the first six months of the year, with such intrusions surging during political conflicts as more threat actors leverage the attack technique for cyberwarfare.

Operations of Dutch web hosting firm Argeweb have been disrupted for more than a week after being impacted by a distributed denial-of-service attack that was initially discovered to have impacted the performance of certain DNS servers on Mar. 25, Cybernews reports.

Fast flux lets attackers set up complete C2 ops inside an enterprise network, prompting security pros to say it’s a “big-time wakeup call.”