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There's not really a lot of technical analysis in this post-mortem - does anyone have additional details into the techniques used?
by pudquick 13y ago
There's not really a lot of technical analysis in this post-mortem - does anyone have additional details into the techniques used?
- specialp 13y agoSee http://openresolverproject.org/ http://openresolverproject.org/. Someone was trying to use them to attack someone else. Misconfigured DNS servers can be used to amplify DDOS attacks exponentially. If your DNS server is open to recursive queries for outside hosts it can be used to generate a Smurf like attack: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf_attack They were on the list of DNS providers used for a DDOS attack on someone else and were flooded as collateral damage.
- thibaut_barrere 13y agoYou may find related technical information here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822058 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822058