The Rise of the DDoS Attacks and the Abuse of the WS-Discovery Protocol

From ehackingnews.com

A new type of attack that feeds on vulnerabilities in the usage of the Web Services Dynamic Discovery protocol has been discovered recently by analysts from Akamai’s DDoS mitigation service Prolexic.
The attackers here are said to have had used a moderately new strategy—one that can possibly yield more than 15,000 per cent rate of return for the junk data it heaves at a victim.

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