A flaw in the implementation of the UDP protocol for Memcached servers can allow anyone to launch a massive Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack with little effort.
The problem was first discovered by the 0kee Team from China, which published a paper about it (pdf). This past week, security researchers at content delivery network (CDN) specialist Cloudflare also wrote about the issue. And CDN specialist Akamai and security provider Arbor Networks recently published their findings.
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