Security News > 2018 > March > Largest Ever 1.3Tbps DDoS Attack Includes Embedded Ransom Demands
2018-03-05 14:08
On Tuesday, 27 February, three major DDoS mitigation service providers (Akamai, Cloudflare and Arbor) warned that they had seen spikes in a relatively rare form of reflection/amplification DDoS attack via Memcached servers. Each service provider warned that this type of reflection attack had the potential to deliver far larger attacks. read more
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