Security News > 2018 > February > Memcached Abused for DDoS Amplification Attacks
2018-02-27 18:58
Malicious actors have started abusing the memcached protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Cloudflare and Arbor Networks warned on Tuesday. read more
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