by FastNetMon | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog
In recent weeks, South Korea has found itself at the center of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions. The South Korean President’s Office has reported an uptick in cyber-attacks from politically...
by FastNetMon | Nov 8, 2024 | Events, News & Media
How was it at HKNOG13? Here’s our conference recap Last Friday, November 1st 2024, we had the absolute pleasure of attending the annual Hong Kong Network Operators Group conference #13 – AKA HKNOG13. Flying in all the way from UK on a short notice was bt of a...
by FastNetMon | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog
Last week several UK councils experienced outages on their websites, with some even knocked offline or rendered inaccessible to users, due to a series of DDoS attacks. The cyber onslaught targeted various local authorities and other organisations, including small...
by FastNetMon | Nov 5, 2024 | Blog
German police have announced the disruption of a DDoS-for-hire platform dstat[.]cc. The platform has been playing a significant role in facilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and the crackdown is a big victory for cybercrime defense. German law...
by FastNetMon | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog
How compromised CUPS servers can be a DDoS threat? A newly discovered vulnerability (CVE-2024-47850) in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) can be exploited to stage DDoS attacks. Starting an attack is surprisingly simple. It only requires sending a single packet...
