On 21 March 2025, we had the pleasure of attending CLNOG 2025, held in Santiago, Chile. This event brought together network operators and industry experts from across the region, highlighting ...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Security Group recently published important findings on the effectiveness of global law enforcement actions against DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booters. Their study, Assessing ...
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. This post debunks ...
London, UK – Tuesday, September 9th 2025 – FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in ...
Breaking DDoS news from FastNetMon At FastNetMon, we recently worked with a customer — a DDoS scrubbing provider — who faced one of the largest DDoS attacks ever publicly recorded. ...
Application-layer and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals Application-layer (L7) and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks are among the most insidious forms of denial-of-service threats. Rather than saturating bandwidth, they ...
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. ...
Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date — a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only ...
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 ...
We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen — via botnets, traffic floods, vectors — but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every ...
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 protocols like NetFlow ...