Flutterby™! : NTP amplication attack 2014-03-05 02:29:46.051129+01

NTP amplication attack

2014-03-05 02:29:46.051129+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Technical Details Behind a 400Gbps NTP Amplification DDoS Attack.

The worst part is that because of buggy DSL modems (not namin' any names, but...), unless you were on the phone with your ISP trying to figure out why your connection was saturated, probably trying to figure out why you couldn't download anything because your local network couldn't get any requests out, you'd have no idea that your hardware was participating in such a thing.

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