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Yandex Pummeled by Potent Meris DDoS Botnet – Threatpost

Yandex Pummeled by Potent Meris DDoS Botnet – Threatpost

Record-breaking distributed denial of service attack targets Russia’s version of Google – Yandex. Technical details tied to a record-breaking distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against Russian internet behemoth Yandex are surfacing as the digital dust settles. A massive botnet, dubbed Mēris, is believed responsible, flooding Yandex with millions of HTTP requests for webpages at the same time. This DDoS technique is… Source link

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