FastNetMon was recently featured on the APNIC blog, where FastNetMon Founder Pavel Odintsov reflects on a decade of the DDoS landscape while building the open source DDoS detection platform. What...
Milan Milosevic
How to defend against a DDoS attack?
DDoS defence explained: how to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack? DDoS attacks are easier than ever to launch, harder to trace, and can cause real damage if you're not prepared. The end result is...
U.S. Authorities Take Down โRapperBotโ DDoS-for-Hire Service After 370,000 Attacks
The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old Oregon man for operating RapperBot, a large-scale botnet-for-hire that powered more than 370,000 DDoS attacks between April and August 2025....
MadeYouReset: The New HTTP/2 DDoS Threat and Mitigation Strategies
MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023โs Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while...
Understanding Transport and State-Exhaustion DDoS Attacks
How connection state exhaustion attacks threaten your firewalls and proxies Transport and state-exhaustion DDoS attacks represent a growing and sophisticated category of denial-of-service threats...
Win-DoS: New Windows Zero-Click Vulnerabilities Enable Domain Controller-Powered DDoS Botnets
SafeBreach Labs researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag disclosed a new class of Windows denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash critical infrastructure or conscript...
DDoS Scrubbing Centre Automation Explained
As DDoS attacks grow in scale and complexity, modern mitigation strategies are evolving to meet the challenge. Organisations today have more powerful tools than everโbut success hinges on speed,...
What Is a DDoS Attack? History, Motives, and Methods Explained
If youโve managed a network for more than a week, chances are youโve seen it, or at least worried about it: the DDoS attack. You know the symptoms. Traffic spikes. Routing instability. Customers...
DDoS or Drama? Qubicโs Monero Takeover Attempt Sparks Controversy
August 3, 2025, a crypto mining pool called Qubic claimed it was hit by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack after launching an aggressive bid to gain control of the Monero blockchain....
Making Sense of Network Traffic Visibility in Modern Infrastructure
In 2025, network traffic visibility isnโt just a technical requirementโitโs a strategic necessity. As networks grow in size and complexity, visibility has become critical to performance, security,...