Incident summary: Date: October 6, 2025 Targets: Steam, Riot Games, PlayStation Network, AWS, and others Peak bandwidth (unconfirmed): 29.69 Tbps Suspected source: Aisuru botnet Attack vector...
Milan Milosevic
ShadowV2: A new botnet that turns misconfigured Docker APIs into a pay-to-use cloud DDoS platform
ShadowV2 has been identified as a new DDoS-as-a-service platform that stands out for its use of cloud infrastructure. Instead of relying on home routers or compromised IoT devices, it exploits...
Event recap – BalticNOG 2025
Last week we joined the Baltic network operator community in Vilnius for BalticNOG 2025. The two-day event brought together engineers, researchers, and operators from across the region to share...
Event recap – RONOG 10
On 18 September 2025, the Romanian Network Operators Group hosted RONOG 10 in Bucharest. The one-day conference, organised by InterLAN, brought together network operators, engineers, regulators, and...
Network Engineering Community News: September 2025
Welcome to our Network Engineering Community News! Hi from FastNetMon! September has been anything but quiet: record-scale DDoS attacks, new botnets, and plenty of network security updates kept us...
Outbound DDoS: The attack you might be unknowingly hosting
When we talk about DDoS attacks, the focus is almost always on protecting services from inbound floods. But thereโs another side to the story that often goes unnoticed: outbound DDoS attacks. These...
A new world record DDoS attack: 22.2 Tbps
The cybersecurity landscape witnessed a new benchmark in DDoS attacks as Cloudflare reported mitigating a hyper-volumetric assault that peaked at 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion...
Understanding Layer 3 and Layer 4 DDoS attacks
What L3 and L4 DDoS attacks are, how they work, and what defenders need to know DDoS attacks at Layers 3 and 4 (the Network and Transport layers) are some of the most common and disruptive seen on...
How to tell if youโre under a DDoS attack
DDoS attacks remain one of the most disruptive threats facing ISPs, backbone networks, hosting providers, and enterprises. Detecting the attacks quickly is essential to keeping networks stable and...
Cambridge study examines global law enforcement efforts against DDoS-for-hire services
Researchers from the University of Cambridgeโs Security Group recently published important findings on the effectiveness of global law enforcement actions against DDoS-for-hire services, also known...