In this month's issue: register for our webinar with Inter.link, see where to meet us at RONOG10, learn about scrubbing centre automation, read our APNIC feature on 10 years in open-source security,...
Month: August 2025
Why do DDoS attacks happen? Top motivations behind DDoS cybercrime
We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen โ via botnets, traffic floods, vectors โ but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every DDoS attack is a motive. Sometimes...
Making Sense of Network Telemetry: FastNetMon Featured on LACNIC
FastNetMon was recently featured on LACNIC, where our Founder, Pavel Odintsov provides a practical guide to network telemetry for operators. The article explains the differences between flow-based...
Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack on Core Infrastructure
The Arch Linux project has confirmed that its core infrastructure has been under sustained DDoS attack for more than a week. The campaign, which began on August 16, 2025, has disrupted user access...
Reflecting on 10 Years of Open Source DDoS Defense: FastNetMon Featured on APNIC
FastNetMon was recently featured on the APNIC blog, where FastNetMon Founder Pavel Odintsov reflects on a decade of the DDoS landscape while building the open source DDoS detection platform. What...
How to defend against a DDoS attack?
DDoS defence explained: how to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack? DDoS attacks are easier than ever to launch, harder to trace, and can cause real damage if you're not prepared. The end result is...
U.S. Authorities Take Down โRapperBotโ DDoS-for-Hire Service After 370,000 Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old Oregon man for operating RapperBot, a large-scale botnet-for-hire that powered more than 370,000 DDoS attacks between April and August 2025....
MadeYouReset: The New HTTP/2 DDoS Threat and Mitigation Strategies
MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023โs Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while...
Understanding Transport and State-Exhaustion DDoS Attacks
How connection state exhaustion attacks threaten your firewalls and proxies Transport and state-exhaustion DDoS attacks represent a growing and sophisticated category of denial-of-service threats...
Win-DoS: New Windows Zero-Click Vulnerabilities Enable Domain Controller-Powered DDoS Botnets
SafeBreach Labs researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag disclosed a new class of Windows denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash critical infrastructure or conscript...