Despite being a decades-old threat, DDoS attacks still come with a cloud of misunderstanding. Every time a myth goes unchecked, organisations risk underestimating threats or misallocating resources....
Milan Milosevic
Press Release: FastNetMon detects a record-scale DDoS attack
London, UK โ Tuesday, September 9th 2025 โ FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing...
1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon
Breaking DDoS news from FastNetMon At FastNetMon, we recently worked with a customer โ a DDoS scrubbing provider โ who faced one of the largest DDoS attacks ever publicly recorded. The target: the...
Understanding Application-Layer & Low-and-Slow DDoS Attacks
Application-layer and โlow-and-slowโ DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals Application-layer (L7) and โlow-and-slowโ DDoS attacks are among the most insidious forms of...
DDoS FAQ for beginners
Introduction: Questions you always wanted to ask about DDoS DDoS is one of those topics that everyone in the industry has heard about, but few feel confident they fully understand. Maybe youโve sat...
Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack
Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date โ a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only 35...
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 open-source security,...
Why do DDoS attacks happen? Top motivations behind DDoS cybercrime
We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen โ via botnets, traffic floods, vectors โ but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every DDoS attack is a motive. Sometimes...
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...
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 disrupted user access...