DDoS attacks remain one of the most disruptive threats facing ISPs, backbone networks, hosting providers, and enterprises. Detecting the attacks quickly is essential to keeping networks stable and services running. ...
Researchers from the University of Cambridge’s Security Group recently published important findings on the effectiveness of global law enforcement actions against DDoS-for-hire services, also known as booters. Their study, Assessing ...
Despite being a decades-old threat, DDoS attacks still come with a cloud of misunderstanding. Every time a myth goes unchecked, organisations risk underestimating threats or misallocating resources. This post debunks ...
Breaking DDoS news from FastNetMon At FastNetMon, we recently worked with a customer — a DDoS scrubbing provider — who faced one of the largest DDoS attacks ever publicly recorded. ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...