by FastNetMon | Sep 3, 2025 | Blog
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 35 seconds, but its scale tells something about the growing headaches...
by FastNetMon | Aug 27, 2025 | Blog
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 DDoS attack is a motive. Sometimes it’s financial. Sometimes it’s political. And sometimes it’s...
by FastNetMon | Aug 26, 2025 | Blog
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 disrupted user access to the project’s main website, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the...
by FastNetMon | Aug 19, 2025 | Blog
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 prepared. The end result is typically the same: your users can’t reach you or your systems are...
by FastNetMon | Aug 19, 2025 | Blog
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 on tens of thousands of compromised IoT devices, the botnet was...
by FastNetMon | Aug 13, 2025 | Blog, FastNetMon
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 freeing the stream from HTTP/2 accounting. One TCP connection can...
