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 ...

A mitigation mechanism is available for all victims who are under a DDoS attack carried out via Memcached servers. This mitigation technique relies on the attacked victim sending a "flush_all" command ...

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Cloudflare announced recently that they are seeing an increase in amplification attacks using memcached servers, and that this exploit has the potential to be a big problem because memcached is ...

A new kind of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) has hit the Internet, with amplification parameters that have never been seen before by security experts. This new attack uses Memcache as an enabler ...

The 1Tbps-plus memcached amplification attacks that hammered GitHub and other networks over the past week can be disarmed with a "practical kill switch", according to DDoS protection firm Corero. The ...

Memcached, does not need any kind of replication or transfer - just add or remove a server, and the vbuckets wire protocol addition can inform the clients that the data is not present and they can ...

I've been asked to look into memcached and if we need new hardware or not. The memcached wiki says that I could, for example, use spare memory on a webserver as long as I'm not going to start paging ...

Crooks can abuse Memcached servers to launch insanely massive DDoS attacks using very few computational resources on their end. These type of DDoS attacks are possible because of the unsecured way ...

Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets. Cybercriminals behind distributed denial of service attacks have ...