by FastNetMon | Oct 15, 2025 | Blog
Aisuru, a massive IoT botnet, recently pushed outbound traffic close to 30 Tbps from infected devices inside major U.S. ISPs — one of the largest DDoS events ever recorded. Outbound DDoS attacks, where malicious traffic leaves your network rather than entering it, are...
by FastNetMon | Oct 9, 2025 | Blog
Recent kernel updates led by Google engineer Eric Dumazet, and first reported by Michael Larabel (Phoronix), show that Linux 6.18 delivers significant improvements in how servers handle high-rate DDoS traffic. The work focuses on optimising the UDP receive path under...
by FastNetMon | Oct 8, 2025 | Blog
Incident summary: Date: October 6, 2025 Targets: Steam, Riot Games, PlayStation Network, AWS, and others Peak bandwidth (unconfirmed): 29.69 Tbps Suspected source: Aisuru botnet Attack vector (reported): TCP-based carpet bomb traffic Status: Under investigation — no...
by FastNetMon | Oct 1, 2025 | Blog
ShadowV2 has been identified as a new DDoS-as-a-service platform that stands out for its use of cloud infrastructure. Instead of relying on home routers or compromised IoT devices, it exploits misconfigured Docker daemons running in public cloud environments. Many of...
by FastNetMon | Sep 23, 2025 | Blog
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 second (Bpps). This attack more than doubled the previous UDP...
