Amplification Hell: Revisiting Network Protocols for DDoS Abuse

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Summary

This paper revisits popular UDP-based protocols of network services, online games, P2P filesharing networks and P1P botnets to assess their security against DRDoS abuse and finds that 14 protocols are susceptible to bandwidth amplification and multiply the traffic up to a factor 4670.

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Published
2014-01-01
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Denial-of-service attack, Computer science, Trinoo, Application layer DDoS attack, Computer network

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