Website Security & Threat Management
Reflections on reflection (attacks)

Reflections on reflection (attacks)

5/24/2017 · Marek Majkowski

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This post details the analysis of reflection attacks, specifically NTP and SSDP, including their mechanics, prevalence, and statistics gathered from Cloudflare's logs. It explains how these attacks work, lists popular reflection vectors, and provides detailed statistics on NTP and SSDP attacks, including duration, number of reflectors, and peak bandwidth. It also touches on Cloudflare's automated defenses against such attacks.

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