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 ...
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 ...
The Aisuru botnet, responsible for multiple record-breaking DDoS attacks this year, has reportedly altered its operations to supply infected IoT devices for use as residential proxies. This marks a shift ...
Poland’s largest digital payment service, BLIK, has suffered periodic outages after being targeted by distributed denial-of-service attacks over the weekend and into Monday. The incidents caused intermittent disruption for customers ...
A newly emerged hacktivist collective calling itself Hezi Rash (‘Black Force’) has sharply increased DDoS activity across multiple countries. Between August and October 2025, researchers observed around 350 attacks — ...