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The Hacker News |
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2022-03-02 02:38:44 (vue: 2022-03-02 11:05:50) |
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Hackers Begin Weaponizing TCP Middlebox Reflection for Amplified DDoS Attacks |
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Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks leveraging a new amplification technique called TCP Middlebox Reflection have been detected for the first time in the wild, six months after the novel attack mechanism was presented in theory.
"The attack […] abuses vulnerable firewalls and content filtering systems to reflect and amplify TCP traffic to a victim machine, creating a powerful DDoS |
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