Social networking platform Bluesky suffered a day-long service disruption after being hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that flooded its servers with malicious traffic. The company confirmed the incident, stating that defenses have been upgraded while monitoring continues to ensure platform stability.
While official details remain sparse, cybersecurity researchers indicate that threat actors backed by Iran have claimed responsibility for the disruption amid heightened regional cyber warfare. This incident marks the second major wave of traffic-flooding attacks to impact the decentralized social network following similar downtime earlier in the year.
- Bluesky experiences day-long outage from DDoS attack
- Platform operators upgraded security defenses in response
- Security researchers point to Iran-backed actors
- Second major traffic disruption for the site this year
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