A practical breakdown of DDoS attack vectors, built for network operators When your NOC wallboard lights up red, you don’t have 5 seconds. And if you’re relying on manual triage ...
On July 21, 2025, the Hungarian National Investigation Bureau’s Cybercrime Investigation Unit announced the arrest of a 23-year-old suspect behind a series of coordinated DDoS attacks targeting the International Press ...
In a major win for cybersecurity defenders across Europe, Europol and Eurojust have successfully coordinated an international operation—Operation Eastwood—to disrupt the infrastructure and operations of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16). ...
The Modern Era: from modular loaders to multi-vector flood engines As defenders have become more aware of the classic tactics used by earlier botnets like BASHLITE, Mirai, and GameOver Zeus, ...
Juniper Networks has disclosed a new vulnerability (CVE-2025-52953) affecting Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved, which allows an unauthenticated adjacent attacker to send a valid BGP UPDATE packet that resets ...
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks at layers 3 and 4 are blunt, fast, and disruptive. If you’re running networks at any scale, chances are you’ve already seen your fair ...
In a continuing wave of new malware activity, researchers have uncovered a botnet dubbed RondoDox, which is actively exploiting known vulnerabilities in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers ...
A newly discovered botnet family dubbed Hpingbot is gaining attention in the cybersecurity community for its novel approach to malware delivery and DDoS execution. Detected by NSFOCUS’s Fuying Lab in ...
For over two decades, botnets have been at the heart of some of the most disruptive activity online – from large-scale DDoS campaigns to credential theft and malware distribution. While ...
Threshold-based DDoS defence is one of the most effective ways to automate blackhole routing for high-volume attacks, without the need for constant manual oversight. In this post, we’ll break down ...