by FastNetMon | Sep 11, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
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 the Aftermath: the Effects of a...
by FastNetMon | Sep 9, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
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. The target: the provider’s website The scale: 1.5 billion packets per second in a...
by FastNetMon | Sep 3, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
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 35 seconds, but its scale tells something about the growing headaches...
by FastNetMon | Aug 26, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
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 disrupted user access to the project’s main website, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and the...
by FastNetMon | Aug 19, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
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 on tens of thousands of compromised IoT devices, the botnet was...
