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New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could go wrong?

reader comments 18 with 18 posters participating Share this story Cybercriminals who use giant floods of data to knock sites offline are leveraging a never-before-seen method that has the potential to increase the damaging effects of those floods by an unprecedented 4 billion times, researchers warned on Tuesday. Like many other types of distributed denial-of-service… Read More: New method that amplifies DDoSes by 4 billion-fold. What could… »

DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks of unthinkable size

reader comments 21 with 19 posters participating, including story author Share this story Last August, academic researchers discovered a potent new method for knocking sites offline: a fleet of misconfigured servers more than 100,000 strong that can amplify floods of junk data to once-unthinkable sizes. These attacks, in many cases, could result in an infinite… Read More: DDoSers are using a potent new method to deliver attacks… »

Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS attack

Enlarge / Drowning in a sea of data. reader comments 44 with 38 posters participating, including story author Share this story As Internet attacks go, data floods designed to knock servers offline are among the crudest, akin to a brutish caveman wielding a club to clobber his rival. Over the years, those clubs have grown… Read More: Microsoft fends off record-breaking 3.47Tbps DDoS attack »

~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard to the Internet

reader comments 8 with 8 posters participating Share this story Criminals are upping the potency of distributed denial-of-service attacks with a technique that abuses a widely used Internet protocol that drastically increases the amount of junk traffic directed at targeted servers. DDoSes are attacks that flood a website or server with more data than it… Read More: ~4,300 publicly reachable servers are posing a new DDoS hazard… »

DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks more potent

Getty Images reader comments 71 with 54 posters participating Share this story Distributed denial-of-service attackers have seized on a new vector for amplifying the junk traffic they lob at targets to take them offline: end users or networks using the Plex Media Server. DDoS amplification is a technique that leverages the resources of an intermediary… Read More: DDoSers are abusing the Plex Media Server to make attacks… »