DDoS news: December 4th 2025 A new world-record DDoS attack has been confirmed, peaking at 29.7 terabits per second (Tbps) and launched by the Aisuru botnet, a large DDoS-for-hire network ...
Every time law enforcement announces a major DDoS botnet operation, the Internet seems to exhale in relief. Servers are seized, operators arrested, domains pulled out from under them. For a ...
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 ...