Memcached DDoS attack
A type of amplification attack exploiting features of Memcached system, which is widely used for in-memory caching of data in order to accelerate websites’ operation. The attacks involve making large amounts of spoofed requests to a victim Memcached server, which results in its overloading and getting down.
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UDP floodTeardrop AttackWhat is an ICMP Flood Attack?What Is a Ping Flood?IP fragmentation attackSYN/ACK floodRST/FIN floodSlowloris or session attacksHTTP floodRecursive HTTP GET floodVoIP floodNTP floodDNS AmplificationIP Null AttackUDP floodMITM (man-in-the-middle) attackSYN flood, or SYN attackSIP malformed attackSNMP reflection attackCharGEN floodMS SQL reflection DDoS attack
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