The cybersecurity landscape witnessed a new benchmark in DDoS attacks as Cloudflare reported mitigating a hyper-volumetric assault that peaked at 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion...
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Understanding Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks
What L3 and L4 DDoS attacks are, how they work, and what defenders need to know DDoS attacks at Layers 3 and 4 (the Network and Transport layers) are some of the most common and disruptive seen on...
How to tell if youโre under a DDoS attack
DDoS attacks remain one of the most disruptive threats facing ISPs, backbone networks, hosting providers, and enterprises. Detecting the attacks quickly is essential to keeping networks stable and...
Cambridge study examines global law enforcement efforts against DDoS-for-hire services
Researchers from the University of Cambridgeโs Security Group recently published important findings on the effectiveness of global law enforcement actions against DDoS-for-hire services, also known...
Common myths and misconceptions about DDoS attacks
Despite being a decades-old threat, DDoS attacks still come with a cloud of misunderstanding. Every time a myth goes unchecked, organisations risk underestimating threats or misallocating resources....
Press Release: FastNetMon detects a record-scale DDoS attack
London, UK โ Tuesday, September 9th 2025 โ FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing...
1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon
Breaking DDoS news from FastNetMon At FastNetMon, we recently worked with a customer โ a DDoS scrubbing provider โ who faced one of the largest DDoS attacks ever publicly recorded. The target: the...
Understanding Application-Layer & Low-and-Slow DDoS Attacks
Application-layer and โlow-and-slowโ DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals Application-layer (L7) and โlow-and-slowโ DDoS attacks are among the most insidious forms of...
DDoS FAQ for beginners
Introduction: Questions you always wanted to ask about DDoS DDoS is one of those topics that everyone in the industry has heard about, but few feel confident they fully understand. Maybe youโve sat...
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack
Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date โ a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only 35...