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Akamai Warns Of 3 New Reflection DDoS Attack Vectors

Akamai Technologies, the global leader in content delivery network (CDN) services, published a new cybersecurity threat advisory. Akamai has observed three new reflection distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent months. The advisory details the DDoS threat posed by NetBIOS name server reflection, RPC portmap reflection, and Sentinel reflection in full, including payload analysis, a Snort rule, and system hardening best practices.