Crooks can abuse Memcached servers to launch insanely massive DDoS attacks using very few computational resources on their end. These type of DDoS attacks are possible because of the unsecured way ...

Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets. Cybercriminals behind distributed denial of service attacks have ...

This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts. The largest distributed denial of service ...

Multiple security vendors this week are warning about threat actors for the first time exploiting unprotected Memcached servers to launch dangerously large denial-of-service attacks against target ...

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The 1Tbps-plus memcached amplification attacks that hammered GitHub and other networks over the past week can be disarmed with a "practical kill switch", according to DDoS protection firm Corero. The ...

Web security and caching giant Cloudflare has announced the detection of a flaw in the popular Memcached object caching system, a popular method of boosting database performance, which is being ...