The Modern Era: from modular loaders to multi-vector flood engines As defenders have become more aware of the classic tactics used by earlier botnets like BASHLITE, Mirai, and GameOver Zeus, threat...
Year: 2025
FastNetMon Interviewed by Website Planet: The Real Reason Websites Crash During DDoS Attacks
FastNetMon was recently featured in an interview with Website Planet, an expert blog focused on hosting, infrastructure, and web technologies. In the conversation, our Founder Pavel Odintsov shares...
New Junos OS Vulnerability Can Cause BGP Session Resets
Juniper Networks has disclosed a new vulnerability (CVE-2025-52953) affecting Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, which allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to send a valid BGP UPDATE packet that...
Filtering L3/L4 DDoS attacks with BGP Flow Spec and RTBH: A practical guide for engineers
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at layers 3 and 4 are blunt, fast, and disruptive. If youโre running networks at any scale, chances are youโve already seen your fair share of UDP...
New Botnet โRondoDoxโ Targets Unpatched DVRs and Routers for Stealthy DDoS Campaigns
In a continuing wave of new malware activity, researchers have uncovered a botnet dubbed RondoDox, which is actively exploiting known vulnerabilities in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and...
New Botnet โHpingbotโ Emerges with Pastebin-Based Payload Delivery and Hping3 DDoS Engine
A newly discovered botnet family dubbed Hpingbot is gaining attention in the cybersecurity community for its novel approach to malware delivery and DDoS execution. Detected by NSFOCUSโs Fuying Lab...
Meet the botnets breaking the Internet: Part 2
For over two decades, botnets have been at the heart of some of the most disruptive activity online - from large-scale DDoS campaigns to credential theft and malware distribution. While the end...
How to set a threshold for RTBH/BGP Blackhole: A practical guide to threshold-based DDoS defence
Threshold-based DDoS defence is one of the most effective ways to automate blackhole routing for high-volume attacks, without the need for constant manual oversight. In this post, weโll break down...
FastNetMon Interviewed by Safety Detectives: Rethinking DDoS Protection for a Faster, Safer Internet
FastNetMon was recently featured in an interview with Safety Detectives, a cybersecurity blog. The conversation covers the rising threat of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and how...
Path of Exile tightens DDoS protection following service disruptions
Grinding Gear Games (GGG), the developer of the action RPG Path of Exile, has implemented new security updates to strengthen its protection against Distributed DenialโofโService (DDoS) attacks. The...