The bad guys are using a fairly new technique to tamper with the Microsoft SQL Server Resolution Protocol (MC-SQLR) and launch DDoS attacks.
In an advisory released this morning, Akamai's Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) described it as a new type of reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
PLXsert first spotted attackers using the technique in October. Last month, researcher Kurt Aubuchon studied another such attack and offered an analysis here. PLXsert replicated this attack by creating a script based on Scapy, an open-source packet manipulation tool.
How it works here.............https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/02/plxsert-warns-of-ms-sql-reflection-attacks.html
In an advisory released this morning, Akamai's Prolexic Security Engineering & Response Team (PLXsert) described it as a new type of reflection-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack.
PLXsert first spotted attackers using the technique in October. Last month, researcher Kurt Aubuchon studied another such attack and offered an analysis here. PLXsert replicated this attack by creating a script based on Scapy, an open-source packet manipulation tool.
How it works here.............https://blogs.akamai.com/2015/02/plxsert-warns-of-ms-sql-reflection-attacks.html