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DDoS Attacks Using Memcached Are Lethal

March 9, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

Just one week following the huge DDoS attack against code repository GitHub using Memcached, the same technique was used to direct an even larger attack against an unnamed U.S. service provider. According to DDoS protection firm Arbor Networks, the … [Read more...] about DDoS Attacks Using Memcached Are Lethal

Filed Under: DDoS, Ransomware Tagged With: Akamai, Arbor Networks, Brian Krebs, CloudFlare, Cybereason, GitHub, MemCached DDoS, memcached ransom payload, ransomware, UDP-based memcaching

1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Hits Github

March 2, 2018 By News Team Leave a Comment

GitHub revealed that earlier this week it experienced what may be the largest-ever distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. In a post on its engineering blog, a GitHub developer explained that the site was unavailable for around 10 minutes on … [Read more...] about 1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Hits Github

Filed Under: Bot Defense, DDoS Tagged With: Akamai, DDoS, GitHub, Mirai, reflection attack, UDP reflection attack, UDP-based memcaching, volumetric DDoS

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