Memcrashed

Pierluigi Paganini February 28, 2018
Experts warn Memcached DDoS attacks could be soon a dangerous threat

Security experts started observing a dangerous trend in DDoS amplification technique, Memcached DDoS Attacks. Security experts from some security firms have reported that threat actors have started abusing the memcached protocol to power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) Attacks, so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Memcached is a free and open source, high-performance, distributed memory caching system designed to speed […]