Security News > 2015 > September > Mobile ad network exploited to launch JavaScript-based DDoS attack (Help Net Security)
2015-09-28 14:24
A type of DDoS attack that has until now been mostly theoretical has become reality: CloudFlare engineers have spotted a browser-based Layer 7 flood hitting one of its customers with as many as 275,00...
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