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 ...
Historically, DDoS attacks focused on obvious targets: banks, telecoms, gaming platforms, and government services. But in 2025, the landscape has shifted. Today’s DDoS campaigns are increasingly aimed at organisations that ...
BGP Blackholing, also known as RTBH (Remotely Triggered Black Hole), is a well-established technique in the DDoS mitigation playbook. It’s fast, effective, and uses your upstream providers’ infrastructure to stop ...
Botnets are behind some of the biggest online attacks we’ve seen in recent years. They don’t usually rely on advanced hacking techniques or zero-day exploits. Instead, they quietly take over ...
If your organisation buys bandwidth from one of the big backbone carriers, you already sit behind formidable pipes and global scrubbing clouds. Sales decks often call this ‘built-in DDoS protection’. ...
As of June 2025, the BYOND game engine continues to face a persistent and disruptive Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that began on May 10. This sustained assault has severely impacted ...
Infosec Europe: Key Takeaways from London’s Leading Cybersecurity Event FastNetMon’s CEO Kate Fateeva and Maria Pietilanaho visited Infosecurity Europe 2025—this year marking the event’s 30th anniversary at ExCeL London. As ...
DDoS protection in cloud or on-premise: pros, cons, and the rise of hybrid defences Distributed-Denial-of-Service attacks used to be the headache of large carriers and gaming giants. Today they reach ...
FastNetMon Advanced 2.0.372 has been released with a critical fix and several improvements. This release addresses a stability issue that could cause FastNetMon to crash when processing malformed ASN feed ...
Effective DDoS Mitigation Strategies: Building a Tiered Defence System DDoS attacks still remain one of the most persistent and disruptive cyber threats in today’s internet infrastructure. From volumetric floods to ...
On 12 May 2025, digital-forensics journalist Brian Krebs watched his site absorb a flood of traffic that briefly touched 6.3 terabits per second. The surge lasted just 45 seconds, delivering ...