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 moment,...
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ShadowV2 resurfaces: IoT botnet activity amid AWS outage highlights persistent device vulnerabilities
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...
Event Recap โ LINX125
FastNetMon had the opportunity to attend LINX125 in London on 19โ20 November 2025 as a guest, in the capacity of an ascending LINX member. It was a valuable chance for us to learn more about LINX,...
Aisuru isnโt done with DDoS โ and the Azure attack shows why the industry isnโt ready
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 attack was...
US, UK and Australia sanction Russian hosting providers behind major ransomware and DDoS activity
The U.S. Department of the Treasury, together with the UK and Australia, has announced coordinated sanctions against a network of Russian โbulletproofโ hosting providers (BPH) used to run ransomware...
ShadowRay 2.0: Self-replicating botnet turns Ray clusters into DDoS weapons
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...
DDoS trends in public administration โ new data from ENISA report
The European Unionโs cybersecurity agency, ENISA, has published a new sectorial threat landscape report and a press release showing that public administrations are increasingly targeted by...
Belgium hit by twin DDoS campaigns โ what we know
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...
BGP Blackhole for DDoS Mitigation โ and How to Automate It with FastNetMon
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 an active...
Aisuru botnet shifts focus from DDoS to residential proxy services
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...