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Researchers identify extortion as motive behind memcached DDoS attacks

Retrieved on: 2018-03-05 02:11:15

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<div>The adversaries who have been abusing exposed memcached servers to launch amplified distributed denial of service attacks have been including a ransom note amidst their flood of malicious packets, according to researchers from <b>Cybereason</b> who now suspect the actors' true motivation is extortion.</div>

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