Memcached servers

DDOS

Mar 09, 2018

Google, Pornhub and Amazon hit with Memcached-based DDoS Attack – KillSwitch & PoC

Memcached DDOS attacks raise from nowhere and made some record-breaking DDoS attacks. GitHub Hit With a massive 1.35 Tbps DDoS Attack and within 5 days an American firm hit with a records breaking 1.7 Tbps DDoS Attack. Two Proof of concepts for the Memcache DDOS attacks has been published online. The first one written in […]

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Data Security

Mar 01, 2018

Memcached servers can be used to perform DDoS attacks

Memcached is a distributed system that allows the caching of information in RAM. This software seeks to accelerate the search and access to information. Instead of going to the disk, the possibilities that the information is in the RAM are higher. These types of vulnerabilities are found every day. The difference is that, on this […]

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