Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

When exchanging data via the Internet, by notifying the sender's IP address in the header, you can let the other party know the reply destination. However, since the sender can freely describe the IP ...

Twitch star Felix "xQc" returned to his channel on March 5. Things, however, did not go as planned as the streamer was subjected to a DDOS attack. Felix claimed that he had got into this situation ...

Two Israeli hackers were recently arrested by Israeli police on behalf of the FBI, following revelations about an underground service called vDOS – a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) platform for ...

Update 5: At 6:18 P.M. Eastern Dyn said the DDoS attacks have been resolved. Fingers crossed another wave doesn’t occur, as happened earlier today. You can find Dyn’s incident report here. Update 4: ...

Over 100,000 devices have a misconfigured service called multicast DNS that accepts requests from the Internet and can potentially be abused to amplify distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.