CLNOG 2025 Chilean Network Operator Group Event Recap

Event Recap: CLNOG 2025

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 ...

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Network Engineering Community News from FastNetMon August 2025

Network Engineering Community News: August 2025

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 ...

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nside DDoS Understanding Attacker Intent and Motivations

Why do DDoS attacks happen? Top motivations behind DDoS cybercrime

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 ...

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Making Sense of Network Telemetry FastNetMon Featured on LACNIC

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 protocols like NetFlow ...

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Arch Linux Targeted by Ongoing DDoS Attack

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 ...

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FastNetMon on APNIC blog Reflecting on 10 years in open source network security

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 ...

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DDoS Detection and Mitigation explained

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 ...

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DOJ Charges Oregon Man for Running RapperBot DDoS Botnet

U.S. Authorities Take Down “RapperBot” 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. Built ...

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Made You Reset new DDoS attack type discovered. DDoS News by FastNetMon

MadeYouReset: The New HTTP/2 DDoS Threat and Mitigation Strategies

 MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023’s Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while ...

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Transport and state exhaustion DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals

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 targeting the resource limitations of network ...

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Win DoS vulnerability turning public domain controllers into DDoS Botnets DDoS News

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 publicly accessible Windows ...

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