Yesterday we mitigated a unique application layer DDoS attack against one of our clients. The attack was carried out using traffic hijacking techniques, which flooded our client with over 20 million GET requests originating from the browsers of over 22,000 Internet users - all turned into unwilling accomplices by the offender.
What makes this case especially interesting is the fact that the attack was enabled by a vulnerability in one of the world’s largest and most popular sites - one of the domains on Alexa’s “Top 50” list.
read more.....http://www.incapsula.com/blog/world-largest-site-xss-ddos-zombies.html
What makes this case especially interesting is the fact that the attack was enabled by a vulnerability in one of the world’s largest and most popular sites - one of the domains on Alexa’s “Top 50” list.
read more.....http://www.incapsula.com/blog/world-largest-site-xss-ddos-zombies.html