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August 17, 2015 08:00 pm
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RMAJnxjOcAU/bittorrent-clients-can-be-made-to-participate-in-high-volume-dos-attacks
BitTorrent Clients Can Be Made To Participate In High-Volume DoS Attacks
An anonymous reader writes: A group of researchers have discovered some of the most popular BitTorrent applications, including uTorrent, Mainline, and Vuze are vulnerable to a newly discovered form of distributed denial of service attack that makes it easy for a single person to bring down large sites. The weaknesses allow an attacker to insert the target's IP address instead of their own in the malicious request. To mount a Distributed Reflective DoS (DRDoS) attack, an attacker sends this malformed requests to other BitTorrent users, which then act as reflectors and amplifiers and flood the intended victim with responses.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/RMAJnxjOcAU/bittorrent-clients-can-be-made-to-participate-in-high-volume-dos-attacks
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