Engineers Guide to Stopping L3L4 DDoS with BGP Flow Spec RTBH BGP Blackhole

Filtering L3/L4 DDoS attacks with BGP Flow Spec and RTBH: A practical guide for engineers

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 ...

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RondoDox New Botnet Targets IoT Devices for Stealthy DDoS and Proxy Abuse

New Botnet “RondoDox” Targets Unpatched DVRs and Routers for Stealthy DDoS Campaigns

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 ...

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News A New Botnet Hpingbot Leveraging Pastebin and hping3 for DDoS

New Botnet “Hpingbot” Emerges with Pastebin-Based Payload Delivery and Hping3 DDoS Engine

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 ...

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Botnets Over Time Comparative Analysis of Infection Methods C2 Systems and Attack Capabilities

Meet the botnets breaking the Internet: Part 1

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 ...

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Network Engineering guide to DDoS defence Threshold based mitigation and rate limiting

How to set a threshold for RTBH/BGP Blackhole: A practical guide to threshold-based DDoS defence

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 ...

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Path of Exile Improves DDoS Defenses Following Server Instability 1

Path of Exile tightens DDoS protection following service disruptions

Grinding Gear Games (GGG), the developer of the action RPG Path of Exile, has implemented new security updates to strengthen its protection against Distributed Denial‑of‑Service (DDoS) attacks. The changes follow ...

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FastNetMon DDoS NewsNew Flodrix botnet variant exploits Langflow AI server bug

A new variant of the Flodrix botnet has entered the scene…

A new variant of the Flodrix botnet has entered the scene, and it’s taking aim at poorly secured open-source tools with an unusual level of stealth and versatility. The newest ...

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Book Review DDoS – Understanding Real Life Attacks and Mitigation Strategies by Stefan Behte 2025

Book Review: DDoS – Understanding Real-Life Attacks and Mitigation Strategies by Stefan Behte

Comprehensive resources on Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are surprisingly hard to come by—especially ones that are both technically accurate and grounded in real-world experience. That’s why Stefan Behte’s ...

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New Record Breaking 7.3Tbps DDoS attack reported by cloudflare analysed by FastNetMon 1

Internet Under Fire: Analysis of the record-breaking 7.3 Tbps DDoS attack

The Internet Just Survived the Largest DDoS Attack Ever—Here’s What You Need to Know A new milestone in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks has been reached: 7.3 terabits per ...

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DDoS Attacks Are Now Silencing Journalists Disrupting Schools and Targeting NGOs 1

DDoS attacks are now targeting journalists, universities, NGOs. What has changed?

Historically, DDoS attacks focused on obvious targets: banks, telecoms, gaming platforms, and government services. But in 2025, the landscape has shifted. Today’s DDoS campaigns are increasingly aimed at organisations that ...

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