Security News > 2018 > March > Memcached Servers Deliver Amplified DDoS Attacks
2018-03-05 14:17
GitHub Disrupted by 1.5 Tbps Onslaught as New DDoS Attack Type EmergesSay hello to a new type of DDoS attack: UDP amplification via internet-facing servers running memcached, an open source distributed caching system that can be abused to amplify DDoS attacks by a factor of 50,000.
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