by FastNetMon | Apr 14, 2026 | FastNetMon Blog
Thai authorities have arrested a 27-year-old German national suspected of operating major DDoS-for-hire platforms, following a multi-year international investigation involving European law enforcement and INTERPOL. The suspect, identified as Noah Christopher, was...
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 | 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...
by FastNetMon | Jul 23, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
On July 21, 2025, the Hungarian National Investigation Bureau’s Cybercrime Investigation Unit announced the arrest of a 23-year-old suspect behind a series of coordinated DDoS attacks targeting the International Press Institute (IPI) and over 40 independent media...
by FastNetMon | Jul 16, 2025 | FastNetMon Blog
In a major win for cybersecurity defenders across Europe, Europol and Eurojust have successfully coordinated an international operation—Operation Eastwood—to disrupt the infrastructure and operations of the pro-Russian hacktivist group NoName057(16). This group has...
