Security News > 2020 > February > FBI Reportedly Says DDoS Attack Targeted Voter Registration
The FBI reportedly warned this week that attackers repeatedly attempted to disrupt a state's voter registration and information website with a distributed denial-of-service attack.
On Tuesday, the FBI issued a Private Industry Notification that described the attempted DDoS attack, according to Bleeping Computer, which says it obtained a copy of the alert.
The FBI says that the state voter registration website was not affected by the DDoS siege due to properly set up rate-limiting on the target's DNS servers, Bleeping Computer reports.
In the case the FBI describes, the DDoS attack attempted to overwhelm the unnamed targeted website with much more traffic than the DNS server is used to handling in a given time period, according to the report.
Jason Kent, a hacker-in-residence at security firm Cequence Security, says that this type of DDoS attack uses the traffic queries sent to fictitious subdomains to overwhelm the website or service that is targeted.
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