by FastNetMon | Jun 18, 2025 | Blog
Botnets are behind some of the biggest online attacks we’ve seen in recent years. They don’t usually rely on advanced hacking techniques or zero-day exploits. Instead, they quietly take over poorly secured devices connected to the internet. The result is a network of...
by FastNetMon | Jun 11, 2025 | Blog
If your organisation buys bandwidth from one of the big backbone carriers, you already sit behind formidable pipes and global scrubbing clouds. Sales decks often call this ‘built-in DDoS protection’. It sounds reassuring: why invest in extra defences when petabit...
by FastNetMon | Jun 5, 2025 | Blog
As of June 2025, the BYOND game engine continues to face a persistent and disruptive Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack that began on May 10. This sustained assault has severely impacted BYOND’s central services, including its website, multiplayer...
by FastNetMon | Jun 3, 2025 | Blog
DDoS protection in cloud or on-premise: pros, cons, and the rise of hybrid defences Distributed-Denial-of-Service attacks used to be the headache of large carriers and gaming giants. Today they reach everyone from small hosting firms to municipal websites. That change...
by FastNetMon | May 28, 2025 | Blog
Effective DDoS Mitigation Strategies: Building a Tiered Defence System DDoS attacks still remain one of the most persistent and disruptive cyber threats in today’s internet infrastructure. From volumetric floods to subtle, low-rate protocol attacks, the scale and...
by FastNetMon | May 27, 2025 | Blog
On 12 May 2025, digital-forensics journalist Brian Krebs watched his site absorb a flood of traffic that briefly touched 6.3 terabits per second. The surge lasted just 45 seconds, delivering about 585 million UDP packets per second to random ports – enough...
