Security News > 2015 > August > Using BitTorrent Vulnerabilities to Launch Distributed Reflective DoS Attacks (Threatpost)

2015-08-17 17:42
Researchers warn several BitTorrent protocols can be leveraged to carry out distributed reflective denial of service (DRoS) attacks.
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