Friday, 24 March, 2023

DDoS attackers exploit middleboxes in new attacks

<p>DDoS attackers are now targeting vulnerable middleboxes like firewalls for amplification of junk traffic attacks. Akamai said that Middlebox DDoS amplification is an entirely new type of TCP reflection attack which compromises the internet. The main reason is improper validation of TCP stream states while enforcing content filtering policies. The company has observed that a single 33&ndash;byte packet resulted in a 2156-byte response which is a 6533% amplification.</p>