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Over 15,000 Memcached DDoS Attacks Hit 7,100 Sites in Last 10 Days

Memcached reflections fueled two most largest amplification DDoS attacks in the history. Nearly 15,000 cyber attacks against 7,131 unique targets in last ten days. Victims include Google, Amazon, QQ.com, PlayStation, Comodo, GitHub (1.35 Tbps attack), Royal Bank, Minecraft and RockStar games, Avast, Kaspersky, PornHub and Avast. The victims are mainly based in the United States, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, Brazil, France, Germany, Canada, and the Netherlands.

Source: https://thehackernews.com/2018/03/memcached-ddos-attack.html

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