Tag: MikroTik
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Digital Siege: The “Midnight Hammer” and Iran’s 52-Day Descent into Absolute Isolation
While Iran remains sequestered from the global digital commons, a distinct narrative is gaining momentum within its borders: local dispatches contend that during recent incursions, a segment of the nation’s networking infrastructure purportedly succumbed to spontaneous reboots or total deactivation. These reports posit that the catalyst may have been embedded “backdoors” or a pre-positioned botnet.…
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DDoS Attack Hits 1.5 Billion Packets Per Second, Fueled by IoT Devices
A European DDoS mitigation provider has been struck by an unprecedented attack, with traffic volumes peaking at 1.5 billion packets per second. The massive wave originated from thousands of compromised IoT devices and MikroTik routers, weaponized by attackers into a sprawling distributed botnet. The incident was detected and contained in real time through the FastNetMon…