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Record DDoS Attack in Europe: Threat from IoT and MikroTik Routers
Published: 00:00 09/12/2025
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Record DDoS Attack Halted in Europe
FastNetMon has reported thwarting one of Europe's largest DDoS attacks in terms of packet count. At its peak, the attack reached 1.5 billion packets per second (1.5 Gpps), posing a massive challenge for any network infrastructure.
Attack Source: Infected IoT Devices and Routers
The source of this powerful attack was thousands of infected IoT devices and MikroTik routers, operating within over 11,000 networks worldwide. The attack targeted a provider of DDoS "scrubbing" services, which specialize in filtering traffic to neutralize such threats.
Defense against the attack included implementing Access Control Lists (ACLs) on edge routers.
A Growing Threat
Pavel Odintsov, founder of FastNetMon, warned that the mass exploitation of consumer hardware to conduct DDoS attacks is becoming an increasingly serious threat. He called on Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to implement appropriate filtering mechanisms at their network level to prevent similar incidents in the future.
It is worth noting that the news of this attack came just days after Cloudflare announced it had blocked an even larger DDoS attack, which reached 11.5 Tbps and 5.1 Bpps.
DDoS attacks are part of the broader cyberthreat landscape in Poland. Read more about why Poland is the second most attacked country in the world and Russian cyberattacks on Polish infrastructure.
About the Author
Aleksander Zębrowski
Chief Technology Officer at SecurHub.pl
PhD candidate in neuroscience. Psychologist and IT expert specializing in cybersecurity.
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