Security News > 2024 > March > New 'Loop DoS' Attack Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Systems
2024-03-20 14:51
A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk. Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs "servers of these protocols in such a way that they communicate with each other indefinitely," researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for
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