Security News > 2018 > February > Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks
2018-02-28 20:55
Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.
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