The second half of 2025 saw Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) under siege from persistent hacktivist groups. Threat actors such as Keymous+ and NoName057(16) maintained activity across the area, despite coordinated law enforcement operations designed to take down these groups.   According to NetScout’s latest DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, over 8 million attacks […]

Gcore, the infrastructure and software provider for AI, cloud, network and security solutions, has announced the findings of its Q3-Q4 2025 Gcore Radar report DDoS attack trends. The report reveals growing attack volumes, increasingly sophisticated tactics, and changes in attack locations driven by evolving botnet infrastructure. The DDoS attack landscape is at a clear inflection […]

NetScout Systems has released its second half of the year 2025 Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Threat Intelligence Report, revealing sophisticated attacker collaboration, resilient botnets, and compromised IoT infrastructure that drove more than 8 million DDoS attacks worldwide – some as large as 30 terabits per second (Tbps) – marking a new era of hyper-scale, coordinated threat […]

The Government Cyber Action Plan was recently introduced to parliament to better protect the UK’s vital public services. The plan sets out steps to bolster cyber defences for the services that are relied on daily. As the new year begins, the focus for organisations that fall within these regulations must be on ensuring cyber resilience, […]

Reflecting on 2025, NetScout states that global tensions and geopolitical conflicts shaped many of the year’s headlines, with the combats between Israel–Hamas and Russia–Ukraine taking centre stage. These events not only took place in the physical world, but also extended into the digital realm, creating unprecedented risks for organisations globally. According to NetScout’s latest Threat […]

Gcore, the edge AI, cloud, network, and security solutions provider, has announced the findings of its Q1-Q2 2025 Radar report into DDoS attack trends. DDoS attacks have reached unprecedented scale and disruption in 2025, and businesses need to act fast to protect themselves from this evolving threat. The report reveals a significant escalation in the […]

In the first half of 2025, a new wave of geopolitically motivated cyber activity swept across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). According to NetScout’s DDoS Threat Intelligence Report, hacktivists launched more than 8 million distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks globally in H1 2025, with the majority of these attacks targeting EMEA. Looking at the […]

NetScout Systems has released its latest research detailing the evolving Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack landscape. NetScout monitored more than 8 million DDoS attacks globally in the first half of 2025, including more than 3.2 million in EMEA. DDoS attacks have evolved into precision-guided weapons of geopolitical influence capable of destabilising critical infrastructure. Hacktivist groups such […]