by FastNetMon | Apr 16, 2026 | FastNetMon Blog
A coordinated international law enforcement action supported by Europol has targeted the global DDoS-for-hire ecosystem, identifying more than 75,000 users involved in launching attacks. The operation, part of the ongoing Operation PowerOFF initiative, brought...
by FastNetMon | Oct 15, 2025 | FastNetMon 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 | FastNetMon 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 | FastNetMon 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 | FastNetMon 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...
