US Edition1.5 Billion Packets per Second DDoS Attack Detected with FastNetMon
The attack used compromised IoT devices and routers from over 11,000 networks to send 1.5 billion packets per second, aiming to overwhelm processing capacity and disrupt services.
- FastNetMon detected a record-scale DDoS attack on September 11, 2025, targeting a Western European DDoS scrubbing vendor's website with 1.5 billion packets per second.
- The attack primarily involved a UDP flood originating from hijacked customer-premises devices, such as IoT gadgets and MikroTik routers, spanning over 11,000 distinct networks worldwide.
- FastNetMon's automated detection platform identified the flood within seconds and mitigated it quickly, preventing major disruption and demonstrating capability against large-scale packet floods.
- Founder Pavel Odintsov stated, "This event is part of a dangerous trend," urging ISPs to implement detection and filtering at the source to stop outgoing attacks before scaling.
- The incident highlights growing risks from weaponized consumer hardware and signals a need for industry-wide ISP-level interventions to counter increasingly massive DDoS attacks.
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1.5 billion packets per second DDoS attack detected with FastNetMon
LONDON, Sept. 11, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- FastNetMon today announced that it detected a record-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack targeting the website of a leading DDoS scrubbing vendor in Western Europe. The attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps) — one of the largest packet-rate floods publicly disclosed. The malicious traffic was primarily a UDP flood launched from compromised customer-premises equipment (CPE…
1.5B Packet DDoS Attack Breaks Records - Your IoT at Risk
The cybersecurity world is buzzing. FastNetMon detected a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service attack that hit 1.5 billion packets per second, and it went after the very companies built to stop such attacks. The twist is hard to ignore: a European DDoS protection service became the victim of the threat it was designed to block, with malicious traffic pouring in from over 11,000 compromised networks worldwide. Size was only the opener. T…
FastNetMon mitigates 1.5 Gpps DDoS attack
A European DDoS mitigation service provider recently suffered a massive distributed denial-of-service attack reaching 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps). FastNetMon, a DDoS protection specialist, successfully defended against the assault that originated from compromised devices across more than 11,000 global networks. DDoS attack mitigation techniques successfully defend against massive UDP flood assault The attack used a UDP flood strate…
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