DDoS attack leveraging WSD protocol amplified attack strength by 'more than 15,300 per cent'
Attack generated 35Gbps of junk traffic at peak bandwidth
Security researchers from Akamai said they recently witnessed a massive DDoS attack abusing a UDP amplification tool known as WS-Discovery. WS-Discovery (Web Services Dynamic Discovery or WSD) is a...
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