I have been learning about DDoS attacks and how to protect from it. I have a question regarding DDoS attacks. What are common services that are being misused in UDP amplification DDoS attacks?
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The US-CERT lists a few. That list can also be easily found using a web search engine and the keywords in your question:
- DNS
- NTP
- SNMPv2
- NetBIOS
- SSDP
- CharGEN
- QOTD
- BitTorrent
- Kad
- Quake Network Protocol
- Steam Protocol
- RIPv1
- Multicast DNS (mDNS)
- Portmap
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1Thanks, but can you answer a bit ditailed? I mean, why those services are misused? – Romzes Mar 20 '16 at 15:15
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Because they can. They do let you command other machines to send data to a determined destination. – Tobi Nary Mar 20 '16 at 15:16