Mastodon says its flagship server was hit by a DDoS attack

The DDoS attack against Mastodon's flagship server comes less than a week after Bluesky was targeted with junk web traffic.

Mastodon was hit by a 'major' DDoS attack that briefly took down parts of the service

Mastodon seems to be recovering after a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that took down its primary ...
The Hacker News

Mirai Variant Nexcorium Exploits CVE-2024-3721 to Hijack TBK DVRs for DDoS Botnet

CVE-2024-3721 and CVE-2023-33538 exploited in TBK DVRs and EoL TP-Link routers, enabling Mirai variants and DDoS risk.

Bluesky has been dealing with a DDoS attack for nearly a full day.

As a result, users have been experiencing “intermittent interruptions in service for their feeds, notifications, threads and search,” Bluesky says. The company first got a report of “intermittent app ...

Operation PowerOFF identifies 75k DDoS users, takes down 53 domains

The latest wave of "Operation PowerOFF," on April 13, 2026, targeted the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ecosystem and ...
Medscape

Marijuana Use Tied to More Asthma Attacks in Young Adults

Among young adults with asthma, inhalation of marijuana — by smoking, vaping, or both — was significantly associated with higher odds of asthma attacks within 1 year than no marijuana use. Researchers ...
Hosted on MSN

Mena DDoS attacks up 236% in Q2 2025, a record breaking quarter

The Middle East and North Africa (Mena) region experienced a 236 per cent surge in DDoS attacks during the second quarter of 2025 amid escalating regional conflicts, data showed on Wednesday. This is ...
CNN

Suspects in ISIS-inspired attack outside NYC mayor’s residence believed they could kill up to 60 people, prosecutors say

Two men accused of trying to detonate makeshift bombs during protests near New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s residence last month detailed in a notebook and through audio recordings how they hoped ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Israel Tells Iranians to Avoid Trains Before Possible Attack

Israel told Iranians to refrain from using their country’s railway network until 9 p.m. local time, the first warning about such infrastructure that usually precedes an attack. In a statement on X ...
The New York Times

Britain Reinforces That U.S. Cannot Use British Bases for Attacks on Iran

The U.K. government underlined its previous stance that the United States could only use British bases for defensive purposes, after President Trump threatened to strike civilian targets. By Michael D ...
TechRepublic

Microsoft: Hackers Are Using WhatsApp to Deliver Malware to Windows PCs

Microsoft: Hackers Are Using WhatsApp to Deliver Malware to Windows PCs Your email has been sent A new wave of attacks is turning trusted WhatsApp messages into malware delivery traps for Windows ...
Roll Call

Lawsuit seeks damages for police use of force during Jan. 6 attack

Three individuals who were on Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, 2021, filed a class-action lawsuit Friday in Florida seeking damages related to the use of force by police officers during the attack. The ...