by FastNetMon | Sep 16, 2025 | Blog
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. This guide looks at how network engineers can...
by FastNetMon | Sep 11, 2025 | Blog
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 the Aftermath: the Effects of a...
by FastNetMon | Sep 10, 2025 | Blog
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 the most stubborn DDoS myths and explains what...
by FastNetMon | Sep 9, 2025 | Blog
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. The target: the provider’s website The scale: 1.5 billion packets per second in a...
by FastNetMon | Sep 4, 2025 | Blog
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 burn server CPU,...
by FastNetMon | Sep 3, 2025 | Blog
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. Maybe you’ve sat in a meeting where terms like “RTBH,” “FlowSpec,” or “amplification”...
