amplification DDoS attack

Pierluigi Paganini August 17, 2015
Exploiting BitTorrent flaws to run Distributed Reflective DDoS

Security researchers discovered a new technique to exploit BitTorrent to run powerful DDoS amplification attacks that could bring down great websites. A weaknesses in the open BitTorrent protocol makes some of the most widely used BitTorrent applications, including uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze vulnerable to a form of denial of service attack. The form of DDoS […]