Security News

Misconfigured Memcached Servers Abused to Amplify DDoS Attacks
2018-02-28 20:55

Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.

Surge in memcached-based reflected DDoS attacks is due to misconfigured servers
2018-02-28 17:26

Massive memcached-based reflection DDoS attacks with an unprecedented amplification factor have been ongoing for the last few days, by taking advantage of memcached servers exposed to the...

Memcached Servers Abused for Massive Amplification DDoS Attacks
2018-02-28 07:03

Cybercriminals have figured out a way to abuse widely-used Memcached servers to launch over 51,000 times powerful DDoS attacks than their original strength, which could result in knocking down of...

Memcached Abused for DDoS Amplification Attacks
2018-02-27 18:58

Malicious actors have started abusing the memcached protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, Cloudflare and Arbor Networks warned on Tuesday. read more

Organizations Slow to Patch Critical Memcached Flaws (Security Week)
2017-07-18 11:56

Tens of Thousands of Internet-Exposed Memcached Servers Are Vulnerable to Attacks Tens of thousands of servers running Memcached are exposed to the Internet and affected by several critical...

Over 70,000 Memcached Servers Still Vulnerable to Remote Hacking (The Hackers News)
2017-07-18 08:52

Nothing in this world is fully secure, from our borders to cyberspace. I know vulnerabilities are bad, but the worst part comes in when people just don't care to apply patches on time. Late last...