Application Layer Low and Slow DDoS Attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals

Understanding Application-Layer & Low-and-Slow DDoS Attacks

Application-layer and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals Application-layer (L7) and “low-and-slow” DDoS attacks are among the most insidious forms of denial-of-service threats. Rather than saturating bandwidth, they ...

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Basic concepts of DDoS explained by experts FastNetMon Network Engineering Basics

DDoS FAQ for beginners

Introduction: Questions you always wanted to ask about DDoS DDoS is one of those topics that everyone in the industry has heard about, but few feel confident they fully understand. ...

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DDoS News Cloudflare blocks record 11.5 Tbps attack fastnetmon

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date — a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only ...

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nside DDoS Understanding Attacker Intent and Motivations

Why do DDoS attacks happen? Top motivations behind DDoS cybercrime

We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen — via botnets, traffic floods, vectors — but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every ...

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Arch Linux Targeted by Ongoing DDoS Attack

Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack on Core Infrastructure

The Arch Linux project has confirmed that its core infrastructure has been under sustained DDoS attack for more than a week. The campaign, which began on August 16, 2025, has ...

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DDoS Detection and Mitigation explained

How to defend against a DDoS attack?

DDoS defence explained: how to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack? DDoS attacks are easier than ever to launch, harder to trace, and can cause real damage if you’re not ...

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DOJ Charges Oregon Man for Running RapperBot DDoS Botnet

U.S. Authorities Take Down “RapperBot” DDoS-for-Hire Service After 370,000 Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old Oregon man for operating RapperBot, a large-scale botnet-for-hire that powered more than 370,000 DDoS attacks between April and August 2025. Built ...

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Made You Reset new DDoS attack type discovered. DDoS News by FastNetMon

MadeYouReset: The New HTTP/2 DDoS Threat and Mitigation Strategies

 MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023’s Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while ...

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Transport and state exhaustion DDoS attacks explained by DDoS defence professionals

Understanding Transport and State-Exhaustion DDoS Attacks

How connection state exhaustion attacks threaten your firewalls and proxies Transport and state-exhaustion DDoS attacks represent a growing and sophisticated category of denial-of-service threats targeting the resource limitations of network ...

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Win DoS vulnerability turning public domain controllers into DDoS Botnets DDoS News

Win-DoS: New Windows Zero-Click Vulnerabilities Enable Domain Controller-Powered DDoS Botnets

SafeBreach Labs researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag disclosed a new class of Windows denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash critical infrastructure or conscript publicly accessible Windows ...

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