What is Mēris Botnet? The story of the record-breaking DDoS botnet
How a botnet named after the Latvian word for “plague” set world records with 21.8 million requests per second and became the most feared DDoS-for-Hire service on the market.
Layer 7 (application-layer) DDoS attacks: HTTP GET/POST floods, HTTP/2 techniques, challenge bypass and real cases from Mēris — the botnet that made Layer 7 attacks a headline topic.
How a botnet named after the Latvian word for “plague” set world records with 21.8 million requests per second and became the most feared DDoS-for-Hire service on the market.
APT29 hijacked the Plerdy analytics script in a massive watering hole campaign serving iOS and Android exploits. We dissect the supply chain lesson.
UAM, JS Challenge, Managed Challenge, BFM, Turnstile — why Cloudflare stops most stressers, and why it does not stop us.
Passive filtering, JS Challenge and the feared WASM Challenge — how Qrator defends the RU segment, and how we took 21.8M RPS through it anyway.
DDoS-Guard sells “unbypassable” protection. Here is what actually happens when a real botnet meets their JS Challenge and CAPTCHA modes.
Google sinkholed the XCPE botnet's C2, but 1.3 million backdoored TV boxes remain infected, and their proxy revenue model makes them ideal DDoS assets.
CVE-2026-58115 turns Siemens IoT2050 gateways into persistent botnet relays via an unauthenticated Node-RED interface. Here's why edge devices recruit so well.