CISA FBI and partner agencies issue advisory on hacktivist DDoS and OT intrusions targeting critical infrastructure FastNetMon DDoS News

CISA warns of hacktivist DDoS attacks on critical infrastructure OT systems

CISA, together with the FBI, the Department of Energy, the EPA, and international partners, have issued a joint advisory highlighting ongoing DDoS and intrusion attacks targeting operational technology (OT) and ...

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DDoS Defense by Design Architecture That Survives When Everything Else Fails by Herve Hildenbrand FastNetMon

DDoS Defense by Design: Architecture That Survives When Everything Else Fails

This article is written by Herve Hildenbrand and was originally published on LinkedIn. Reposted with the author’s permission. A DDoS attack almost ruined my 40th birthday. Not the party, but ...

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GRE tunneling in DDoS scrubbing center automation common challenges fastnetmon

The good and the bad of GRE tunnels in DDoS scrubbing

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 ...

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29.7 Tbps Aisuru botnet sets a new DDoS world record

New record-breaking DDoS: 29.7 Tbps Aisuru attack marks new high in hyper-volumetric threats

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 ...

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Why are botnets so hard to take down FastNetMon network security insights

Why DDoS botnets are so hard to take down?

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 ...

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ShadowV2 IoT Botnet Surfaces During AWS Outage 1

ShadowV2 resurfaces: IoT botnet activity amid AWS outage highlights persistent device vulnerabilities

During late October 2025, a new Mirai-derived botnet dubbed ShadowV2 was observed exploiting unpatched IoT devices across multiple sectors and 28 countries. While the activity lasted only a day, it ...

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Aisurus 15 Tbps Attack on Azure — What It Means for Internet Resilience

Aisuru isn’t done with DDoS — and the Azure attack shows why the industry isn’t ready

This week, Microsoft confirmed it had mitigated the largest DDoS attacks ever observed on Azure: a 15.72 Tbps, 3.64 Bpps barrage against a single public IP endpoint in Australia. The ...

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Allies Sanction Russian Bulletproof DDoS Hosting Providers

US, UK and Australia sanction Russian hosting providers behind major ransomware and DDoS activity

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 ...

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DDoS News ShadowRay 2.0 Self Replicating Botnet that Launches DDoS Attacks FastNetMon

ShadowRay 2.0: Self-replicating botnet turns Ray clusters into DDoS weapons

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 ...

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DDoS trends in public administration new data from ENISA report

DDoS trends in public administration – new data from ENISA report

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 ...

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