A record breaking DDoS attack. [Research Saturday]

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🗓️ 16 July 2022

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Summary

Chad Seaman, Team Lead at Akamai SIRT joins Dave to discuss their research about a record-breaking DDoS Attack. The research says "A new reflection/amplification distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) vector with a record-breaking potential amplification ratio of 4,294,967,296:1 has been abused by attackers in the wild to launch multiple high-impact DDoS attacks." Starting in mid-February 2022, security researchers, network operators, and security vendors noticed a spike in DDoS attacks. Researchers started to investigate the spike and determined that the devices that were being abused to launch these attacks are MiCollab and MiVoice Business Express collaboration systems. The research goes into how you can help mitigate the attacks and how Mitel has now released patched software. The research can be found here: CVE-2022-26143: TP240PhoneHome Reflection/Amplification DDoS Attack Vector

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1:03.7	Search your first call to discover how SRM can help your business. Hello everyone and welcome to the CyberWire's research Saturday.
1:27.0	I'm Dave Bitner and this is our weekly conversation with researchers and analysts tracking
1:31.9	down the threats and vulnerabilities solving some of the hard problems of protecting ourselves in a rapidly evolving cyberspace.
1:39.0	Thanks for joining us. We started seeing this attack showing up in the real world and the patterns of the attack were interesting enough to start to dig into it more
1:56.1	and try and figure out what exactly we were looking at.
1:58.1	That's Chad Seaman. He's a team lead with Akamai's cert. The research we're discussing today is titled
2:05.8	C. V.E. 2022. 26. 1443. T.P. 240 phone home reflection amplification D.D.
2:12.4	D. D.S, Attack Vector. Want to have your voice heard?
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