One of the most common ways to protect a network from large volumetric DDoS attacks is to divert the malicious traffic to a scrubbing centre. These dedicated networks remove harmful ...
DDoS news: December 4th 2025 A new world-record DDoS attack has been confirmed, peaking at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps) and launched by the Aisuru botnet, a large DDoS-for-hire network ...
Every time law enforcement announces a major DDoS botnet operation, the Internet seems to exhale in relief. Servers are seized, operators arrested, domains pulled out from under them. For a ...
Network Engineering Community News – FastNetMon Welcome to our Network Engineering Community News! Hi from FastNetMon! November came with plenty to talk about. We’ve got a standout guest post from ...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, together with the UK and Australia, has announced coordinated sanctions against a network of Russian “bulletproof” hosting providers (BPH) used to run ransomware operations ...
Researchers are tracking a self-replicating botnet campaign, ShadowRay 2.0, that is targeting internet-facing Ray clusters, the open-source distributed computing framework used to run AI and other workloads. The attackers exploit ...
FastNetMon had the opportunity to attend LINX125 in London on 19–20 November 2025 as a guest, in the capacity of an ascending LINX member. It was a valuable chance for ...
The European Union’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, has published a new sectorial threat landscape report and a press release showing that public administrations are increasingly targeted by cyber-attacks, with DDoS emerging ...
In early November 2025, Belgian networks were hit by two related DDoS campaigns targeting telecom operators, healthcare services, and military-intelligence websites. The pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057 publicly claimed responsibility, citing ...
We are pleased to welcome a guest contributor: BGP Brian (Brian Wilson). Brian leads the BGP Black Belt training community and the consultancy BGP Engineering and Design Group, and is ...