A record breaking DDoS attack. [Research Saturday]
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What's the Difference Between Reflection and Reflection?
One attacker packet can result in 220 billion amplification rate. If you send anything, even a single bite, you get back like 64 bites of response. It's basely an air message followed by the help message. But they weren't aware that using some of these other tests in reface really pushed it up to record setting levels of potential. We had actually planned to go public with our findings earlier, but once we got involved with the mitel contacts at mitel, basically we stretched out that time in to provide them with more time and opportunity to clean up.
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