James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...

On 7 October 2025, a ferocious Steam outage gripped the gaming world, triggered by an unprecedented DDoS attack that unleashed hyper-volumetric floods overwhelming servers and sparking widespread ...

A recently uncovered dedicated denial-of-service (DDoS) for-hire botnet highlights how attackers are repurposing cloud-native development tools to build infrastructure that looks and behaves like ...

Why do you need a Minecraft VPN? Playing Minecraft is never better than when you're playing with friends in a world that is inevitably going to end up experiencing a massive amount of destruction and ...

Modern AI-powered coding assistants (like Cursor, Cline, Roo Code, etc.) excel at understanding code structure and syntax but often struggle with the specifics of rapidly evolving libraries and ...

DDoS attacks are growing significantly. Nowadays, DDoS protection is a commodity service, and you can protect your web application from DDoS attacks almost entirely, or even fully, for free. However, ...

The new DDoS attack vector, which involves HTTP/2 implementation flaws, has been compared to Rapid Reset. Researchers have discovered another attack vector that can be exploited to launch massive ...

Update (Aug. 4, 2025, at 1:50 pm UTC): This article has been updated to add commentary by XMRig developer Sergei Chernykh. A mining pool behind an attempted 51% takeover of Monero is reportedly under ...

Cloudflare surveyed customers about DDoS attacks, and 29% claimed to have identified the sources of those attacks. Of those who identified the attackers, 63% pointed to competitors, the largest of ...