The first quarter of the year 2022 has passed; now, it is time to look at the events of Q1 in terms of mitigated DDoS activity and recorded BGP incidents.

2021 was an action-packed year for Qrator Labs. It started with the official celebration of our tenth year anniversary, continued with massive routing incidents, and ended with the infamous Meris botnet we reported back in September. Now it is time to look at the events of the last quarter of…

The third quarter of 2021 brought a massive upheaval in the scale and intensity of DDoS attacks worldwide. It all led to September when together with Yandex, we uncovered one of the most devastating botnets since the Mirai and named it Meris, as it was held accountable for a series…

The National Internet Segment Reliability Research explains how the outage of a single Autonomous System might affect the connectivity of the impacted region with the rest of the world. Most of the time, the most critical AS in the region is the dominant ISP on the market, but not always. …

Introduction For the last five years, there have virtually been almost no global-scale application-layer attacks. During this period, the industry has learned how to cope with the high bandwidth network layer attacks, including amplification-based ones. It does not mean that botnets are now harmless. End of June 2021, Qrator Labs…

The second quarter of 2021 was expected to be much quieter than the Q1 in DDoS attacks; hence we’re looking at the late spring and early summer months of April, May and June, with somewhat cooled business buzz globally. …

For several years now, Qrator Labs has been working with different universities to find students interested in specific tasks we deal with, for them to either get new experience or mark a future career path in network and computer engineering. At the moment, several Qrator Labs employees started out as…

The year 2021 started on such a high note for Qrator Labs: on January 19, our company celebrated its 10th anniversary. Shortly after, in February, our network mitigated quite an impressive 750 Gbps DDoS attack based on old and well known DNS amplification. Furthermore, there is a constant flow of…

Why is it valuable to get into the Qrator Labs partnership program? In Qrator Labs, we firmly believe that working together brings a better result. Which is the reason why, for years, we were trying to find meaningful partnerships with all kinds of companies. They either seek to provide their…