On 21 March 2025, we had the pleasure of attending CLNOG 2025, held in Santiago, Chile. This event brought together network operators and industry experts from across the region, highlighting ...
Introduction DDoS attacks have long been a thorn in the side of network operators—but AMS-IX faced a particularly unusual challenge. Unlike the massive volumetric attacks that make headlines, the attacks ...
Network Engineering Community News – FastNetMon Welcome to our Network Engineering Community News! Hi from FastNetMon! November came with plenty to talk about. We’ve got a standout guest post from ...
During late October 2025, a new Mirai-derived botnet dubbed ShadowV2 was observed exploiting unpatched IoT devices across multiple sectors and 28 countries. While the activity lasted only a day, it ...
This week, Microsoft confirmed it had mitigated the largest DDoS attacks ever observed on Azure: a 15.72 Tbps, 3.64 Bpps barrage against a single public IP endpoint in Australia. The ...
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, together with the UK and Australia, has announced coordinated sanctions against a network of Russian “bulletproof” hosting providers (BPH) used to run ransomware operations ...
Researchers are tracking a self-replicating botnet campaign, ShadowRay 2.0, that is targeting internet-facing Ray clusters, the open-source distributed computing framework used to run AI and other workloads. The attackers exploit ...
FastNetMon had the opportunity to attend LINX125 in London on 19–20 November 2025 as a guest, in the capacity of an ascending LINX member. It was a valuable chance for ...
The European Union’s cybersecurity agency, ENISA, has published a new sectorial threat landscape report and a press release showing that public administrations are increasingly targeted by cyber-attacks, with DDoS emerging ...
In early November 2025, Belgian networks were hit by two related DDoS campaigns targeting telecom operators, healthcare services, and military-intelligence websites. The pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057 publicly claimed responsibility, citing ...
We are pleased to welcome a guest contributor: BGP Brian (Brian Wilson). Brian leads the BGP Black Belt training community and the consultancy BGP Engineering and Design Group, and is ...