Sohu.com, China’s eighth-largest website and currently the 27th most-visited website in the world, was the unwitting originator of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier in the month, which was carried out using traffic hijacking techniques. In all, the application-layer attack consisted of more than 20 million GET requests originating from the browsers of 22,000+ internet users – all turned into unwilling accomplices by the offender.


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Sohu.com, China’s eighth-largest website and currently the 27th most-visited website in the world, was the unwitting originator of a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack earlier in the month, which was carried out using traffic hijacking techniques. In all, the application-layer attack consisted of more than 20 million GET requests originating from the browsers of 22,000+ internet users – all turned into unwilling accomplices by the offender.
Mon, 28 Apr 2014 12:00:00 GMT
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