by FastNetMon | Nov 27, 2024 | Blog
The Matrix Botnet, a threat actor linked to a widespread DDoS campaign has been uncovered by security researchers. The botnet is exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations in Internet of Things (IoT) devices. This operation seems to be a comprehensive one-stop...
by FastNetMon | Nov 13, 2024 | Blog
On Sunday November 10th, a DDoS attack caused widespread disruption to credit card readers across Israel, affecting several payment systems in supermarkets and gas stations. The incident, which lasted approximately an hour, targeted the communications services of...
by FastNetMon | Nov 12, 2024 | Blog
In recent weeks, South Korea has found itself at the center of a series of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, coinciding with heightened geopolitical tensions. The South Korean President’s Office has reported an uptick in cyber-attacks from politically...
by FastNetMon | Nov 6, 2024 | Blog
Last week several UK councils experienced outages on their websites, with some even knocked offline or rendered inaccessible to users, due to a series of DDoS attacks. The cyber onslaught targeted various local authorities and other organisations, including small...
by FastNetMon | Nov 5, 2024 | Blog
German police have announced the disruption of a DDoS-for-hire platform dstat[.]cc. The platform has been playing a significant role in facilitating distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, and the crackdown is a big victory for cybercrime defense. German law...
by FastNetMon | Oct 23, 2024 | Blog
How compromised CUPS servers can be a DDoS threat? A newly discovered vulnerability (CVE-2024-47850) in the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS) can be exploited to stage DDoS attacks. Starting an attack is surprisingly simple. It only requires sending a single packet...
