A group of hackers dubbed DERP has created a super tool to coordinate multi protocol DDoS reflection attacks as explained by Melbourne-based Micron21 firm.
For the first time ever a hacking group coordinated a range of different DDoS reflection attacks against a data center of the firm Melbourne-based Micron21, the attack occurred on August 2nd.The experts consider the attack singular and for this reason have used the term ‘Combination Distributed Reflective Denial of Service’ or CDRDoS to describe its dynamic.
The particularity of the DDoS reflection attack is that while attackers usually exploit UDP traffic, this time the threat actor abused configuration weaknesses in servers using the NTP, DNS, SSDP and CHARGEN protocols to increase the magnitude of the ‘reflection’ attack.
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