FastNetMon Blog: DDoS News & Network Security Insights
FastNetMon Blog brings you the latest DDoS news, expert analysis, and technical insights on DDoS attacks and network security. As the leading source for DDoS-related content, we cover new threats, attack trends, and protection strategies. Our articles are written for network engineers, security teams, and tech professionals who want to stay ahead of evolving cyber threats. Follow us for updates, how-to guides, and research from the front lines of DDoS defence.
Faster Packet Filtering on BlueField-3 Arm Cores with VPP’s Native RDMA Driver
This post is a repost of a technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy, shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic…
NVIDIA and Cisco Introduce USFP Optics for 12.8 Tbps AI Networking
NVIDIA and Cisco have announced Ultra-Dense Small Form Factor Pluggable (USFP), a new optical transceiver form factor designed for next-generation AI factories and high-performance Ethernet…
IPv6 DDoS Attacks and Mitigation with FastNetMon
IPv6 is now a standard part of many service provider, hosting, data centre and enterprise networks. As more services become reachable over IPv6, network operators also need to make sure that their…
Packet Filtering with VPP on BlueField-3 Arm Cores and 100G NICs
This post is a repost of a technical blog originally published by Denys Haryachyy , shared here with permission as part of ongoing research and engineering work around FastNetMon’s inline traffic…
Inside Today’s Botnets – Changing Supply Chain Behind the Terabit Scale Attacks
This article is based on the presentation “Tracking Today’s Botnets — Threat Intel & Lessons to Defend Against DDoS”, presented by FastNetMon’s Outi Maria Pietilanaho at NOG.HR Meetup 7 in…
Introducing FastACL Community: Open-Source DDoS Scrubbing
For more than a decade, FastNetMon Community has given network operators an open-source option for high-performance DDoS detection. Today, we’re extending that approach from detecting attacks to…
Introducing Netom: an open-source BGP/BMP monitoring engine built for scale
We’re excited to announce the first release of Netom, an open-source BGP and BMP monitoring engine developed and maintained by FastNetMon. Netom is built for network operators who need to collect,…
DDoS News: FBI Disrupts NightmareStresser DDoS-for-Hire Service in Operation PowerOFF
The FBI has seized internet domains associated with NightmareStresser, a long-running DDoS-for-hire service accused of enabling hundreds of thousands of actual or attempted attacks worldwide. The…
DDoS Explained: What Is a Distributed Denial of Service Attack?
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack is a cyberattack that attempts to make a website, server, network, or online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic or requests from many…
We are under attack! (of a DDoS)
This article is republished with the kind permission of Peter-Paul Kurstjens. We are sharing it to showcase a real-world implementation of FastNetMon’s inline traffic filtering solution, currently…