Basic concepts of DDoS explained by experts FastNetMon Network Engineering Basics

DDoS FAQ for beginners

Introduction: Questions you always wanted to ask about DDoS DDoS is one of those topics that everyone in the industry has heard about, but few feel confident they fully understand. ...

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DDoS News Cloudflare blocks record 11.5 Tbps attack fastnetmon

Cloudflare mitigates record-breaking 11.5 Tbps DDoS attack

Cloudflare has disclosed that it successfully mitigated the largest DDoS attack recorded to date — a hyper-volumetric UDP flood peaking at 11.5 terabits per second (Tbps). The attack lasted only ...

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Network Engineering Community News from FastNetMon August 2025

Network Engineering Community News: August 2025

In this month’s issue: register for our webinar with Inter.link, see where to meet us at RONOG10, learn about scrubbing centre automation, read our APNIC feature on 10 years in ...

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nside DDoS Understanding Attacker Intent and Motivations

Why do DDoS attacks happen? Top motivations behind DDoS cybercrime

We often talk about how DDoS attacks happen — via botnets, traffic floods, vectors — but rarely do we ask the more human question: why? The truth is, behind every ...

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Making Sense of Network Telemetry FastNetMon Featured on LACNIC

Making Sense of Network Telemetry: FastNetMon Featured on LACNIC

FastNetMon was recently featured on LACNIC, where our Founder, Pavel Odintsov provides a practical guide to network telemetry for operators. The article explains the differences between flow-based protocols like NetFlow ...

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Arch Linux Targeted by Ongoing DDoS Attack

Arch Linux Confirms Week-Long DDoS Attack on Core Infrastructure

The Arch Linux project has confirmed that its core infrastructure has been under sustained DDoS attack for more than a week. The campaign, which began on August 16, 2025, has ...

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FastNetMon on APNIC blog Reflecting on 10 years in open source network security

Reflecting on 10 Years of Open Source DDoS Defense: FastNetMon Featured on APNIC

FastNetMon was recently featured on the APNIC blog, where FastNetMon Founder Pavel Odintsov reflects on a decade of the DDoS landscape while building the open source DDoS detection platform. What ...

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DDoS Detection and Mitigation explained

How to defend against a DDoS attack?

DDoS defence explained: how to detect and mitigate a DDoS attack? DDoS attacks are easier than ever to launch, harder to trace, and can cause real damage if you’re not ...

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DOJ Charges Oregon Man for Running RapperBot DDoS Botnet

U.S. Authorities Take Down “RapperBot” DDoS-for-Hire Service After 370,000 Attacks

The U.S. Department of Justice has charged a 22-year-old Oregon man for operating RapperBot, a large-scale botnet-for-hire that powered more than 370,000 DDoS attacks between April and August 2025. Built ...

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Made You Reset new DDoS attack type discovered. DDoS News by FastNetMon

MadeYouReset: The New HTTP/2 DDoS Threat and Mitigation Strategies

 MadeYouReset is a new HTTP/2 DDoS vector related to 2023’s Rapid Reset. By provoking the server to reset streams with malformed frames, an attacker keeps backend request processing alive while ...

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