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There's been an increase in the use of outdated Routing Information Protocol version one (RIPv1) for reflection and amplification attacks, according to Akamai. RIPv1 is a fast, easy way to dynamica...

An advisory from Akamai warns of a recent reflection style DDoS attack in which the deprecated RIPv1 routing protocol was leveraged against targets.


Roughly 1,400 passengers were temporarily stranded at Warsaw’s Chopin airport over the weekend after hackers were purportedly able to modify an entire airline’s flight plans.



DDoS attacks are beginning to resemble advanced persistent threats, evidenced by long durations, repetition and changing attack vectors aimed at evading simple, signature-based defense systems, accord...