How bandwidth-focused DDoS campaigns work—and why they’re still effective at scale Volumetric DDoS attacks remain one of the most common and disruptive forms of denial-of-service activity across the internet. Despite ...
AhnLab Security Intelligence Center (ASEC) has recently uncovered a wave of malicious activity involving the SVF Botnet, a lightweight yet capable Python-based malware used to launch DDoS attacks via compromised ...
⚡️ Network Engineering Community News Summer greetings from FastNetMon! While temperatures rise, so do DDoS attack volumes—and we’re here to help you stay cool under pressure. This month, we’re sharing ...
A practical breakdown of DDoS attack vectors, built for network operators When your NOC wallboard lights up red, you don’t have 5 seconds. And if you’re relying on manual triage ...
On July 21, 2025, the Hungarian National Investigation Bureau’s Cybercrime Investigation Unit announced the arrest of a 23-year-old suspect behind a series of coordinated DDoS attacks targeting the International Press ...
In a major win for cybersecurity defenders across Europe, Europol and Eurojust have successfully coordinated an international operation—Operation Eastwood—to disrupt the infrastructure and operations of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16). ...
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, ...
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 insights into ...
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 resets ...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at layers 3 and 4 are blunt, fast, and disruptive. If you’re running networks at any scale, chances are you’ve already seen your fair ...