The gaming industry is under siege as DDoS attacks, data breaches and illicit money-laundering schemes threaten players and platforms alike.

Bots such as AkiraBot use AI to bypass CAPTCHA and flood sites with spam. And in late August 2025, ESET researchers uncovered ...

Jo Craig (they/them) is a writer on Game Rant from Scotland and has been in the industry for nearly a decade dissecting comic book movie trailers for hours and diving headfirst into horror. They still ...

For web-based businesses, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most dangerous issues they’ll face. DDoS attacks make a website unusable by flooding it with traffic and ...

For decades now, nations have engaged in battles over five domains: Air, sea, land, space and cyberspace. One reality for governments today is that their online presence presents an attack surface ...

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming the global cyber threat landscape, with Cyprus now facing mounting risks from AI-powered DDoS attacks, according to cybersecurity company Qrator Labs’ ...

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks rose significantly in the past year, with politically motivated incidents being part of this upward trend. Election-related DDoS attacks can be aimed at ...

The global coronavirus crisis has dramatically increased consumer interest in e-commerce, e-learning, online communications, and entertainment. The number and frequency of DDoS attacks was a trend ...

One of the trickiest things about stopping DDoS attacks is that hackers constantly develop new variations on familiar themes. Take a recent strike against an unnamed gaming company, which used an ...

A hacktivist group that previously targeted Microsoft took credit for the attacks against OpenAI. OpenAI blamed apparent DDoS attacks for this week’s outages to its popular ChatGPT service, and a ...