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Memcached reflections that recently fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history have also helped other cybercriminals launch nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days, a new report revealed.
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By now the vulnerability in Memcached Servers has been exposed to
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Recently we informed our readers about how attackers are abusing
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Security researchers have discovered a “kill switch” that could help companies protect their websites under massive DDoS attack launched using vulnerable Memcached servers.
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For the last few days, hackers have been using vulnerable Memcached
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You, too, can now attempt a record-setting denial-of-service attack, as the tools used to launch the attacks were publicly posted to GitHub this week. Proof-of-concept code by Twitter user @037 combined with a list of 17,000 IP addresses of vulnerable Memcached servers allows anyone to send forged UDP packets to Memcached servers obtained from the Shodan.io computer search engine. It’s been just over a week since the first massive Memcached-fueled denial of service attack. The authors of the new tool is being released “to bring more attention to the flaw and force others into updating their devices.” The era of terabit DDoS attacks was ushered in this month with giant denial of service attacks last week set records with 1.35-terabit-per-second and 1.7 -terabit-per-second attacks. They used unsecured Memcached servers to launch the attacks, one of which targeted GitHub itself. The latter attack targeted an unnamed U.S. service provider, according to Arbor Networks. A second tool was released on […]
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Two separate proofs-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for Memcached amplification attack have been released online that could allow even script-kiddies to launch massive DDoS attacks using UDP reflections easily.
The first DDoS tool is written in C progra… Continue reading Memcached DDoS Exploit Code and List of 17,000 Vulnerable Servers Released
Just days after it was revealed that a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on GitHub had been measured at a record-breaking peak of 1.35 terabits per second, another attack has raced past, and claimed the world record at a mind-blowing 1.7 Tbp… Continue reading World record broken again! DDoS attack exceeds 1.7 terabits per second
The record for the largest recorded denial of service attack appears to have been broken less than a week after it was set. Arbor Networks reported on Monday in a blog post that a 1.7 -terabit-per-second attack took place targeting the customer of a U.S. based internet service provider. Arbor Networks did not specify the victim beyond that description, but said that the ISP had proper defenses in place and that no outages were reported. “It’s a testament to the defense capabilities that this Service Provider had in place to defend against an attack of this nature that no outages were reported because of this,” the company wrote. The attack used the same technique that was used in the 1.35Tbps attack on GitHub on Feb. 28, Arbor Networks said. In both cases, attackers used memcached servers to amplify the requests they were sending to their targets. Arbor Networks says more large attacks using the memcached tactic […]
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The bar has been raised.
As more amplified attacks were expected following the record-breaking 1.35 Tbps Github DDoS attack, someone has just set a new record after only four days — 1.7 Tbps DDoS attack.
Network security and monitoring company Arbor … Continue reading 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack — Memcached UDP Reflections Set New Record