Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice

Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice Crooks already started to blackmail companies asking for a ransom demand in Monero cryptocurrency to avoid being attacked via Memcached servers. Last week, the Github service was hit by the biggest-ever DDoS attack that peaked 1.35 Tbs by abusing the memcached protocol to power so-called memcached DDoS attacks. Researchers believe that threat actors in the wild will abuse misconfigured […] The post Recent Memcached DDoS attacks drive RDoS extortion practice appeared first on Security Affairs. Read More At -> https://blog.cripperz.sg/2018/03/04/recent-memcached-ddos-attacks-drive-rdos-extortion-practice/