Welcome to our Network Engineering Community News! Hi from FastNetMon! September has been anything but quiet: record-scale DDoS attacks, new botnets, and plenty of network security updates kept us busy. ...
When we talk about DDoS attacks, the focus is almost always on protecting services from inbound floods. But there’s another side to the story that often goes unnoticed: outbound DDoS ...
The cybersecurity landscape witnessed a new benchmark in DDoS attacks as Cloudflare reported mitigating a hyper-volumetric assault that peaked at 22.2 terabits per second (Tbps) and 10.6 billion packets per ...
What L3 and L4 DDoS attacks are, how they work, and what defenders need to know DDoS attacks at Layers 3 and 4 (the Network and Transport layers) are some ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
London, UK – Tuesday, September 9th 2025 – FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in ...
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. ...
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 ...