Level 3 Communications has discovered a new type of reflection DDoS attack that takes advantage of RPC Portmapper to overwhelm networking services. A number web hosting providers and businesses in the ...

Level 3 announced that it has witnessed an alarming trend in both traffic behaviour and DDoS methods following the introduction of a new DDoS vector: Portmapper. Portmapper (also referred to as ...

CISOs are being warned to disable or filter the portmap service on their servers or risk potentially aiding a new kind of distributed denial of service (DDoS) reflection attacks. The service, dubbed ...

LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / September 9, 2015 / The founders of Psychz Networks, a company that offers DDoS protection, DDoS mitigation and other services, are pleased to announce that they have ...

Three new reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have burst on the scene in recent months: NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection and Sentinel reflection. In a ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. One web hosting company was last month used for a trial run of a new type of damaging distributed ...