by FastNetMon | Apr 24, 2025 | Blog
Dutch payment processor experiences multiple DDoS attacks in one day An evening of false starts Just after 7 p.m. on 8 April, diners in Dutch cafés and shoppers across Europe noticed card readers freezing. The culprit wasn’t a bad internet connection, but a flood of...
by FastNetMon | Apr 23, 2025 | Blog
Evolution of DDoS: From single PCs to Terabit floods Twenty‑five years ago a teenager with a dial‑up modem discovered he could knock Yahoo! offline by hammering it with junk traffic. Since then denial‑of‑service attacks have morphed into a multi‑billion‑pound headache...
by FastNetMon | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog
The notorious cybercrime marketplace BreachForums has gone offline once more, but this time, no one’s quite sure who’s behind it. While some suspect another FBI takedown, a group calling itself the Dark Storm Team claims they launched a DDoS attack on the site ‘for...
by FastNetMon | Apr 16, 2025 | Blog
What’s the difference between DoS, DDoS, RDoS, and how to prevent these cyberattacks? Not all cyberattacks are created equal. If you’ve ever heard terms like DoS, DDoS or RDoS and wondered what they mean, and why they keep showing up in the news, here’s a simple...
by FastNetMon | Apr 14, 2025 | Blog
Late March, a well-known Dutch web hosting provider, Argeweb, found itself under fire from a DDoS attack that spiralled into a week-long struggle to stay online. What started as a few complaints about slow-loading sites turned into widespread disruption as DNS servers...
