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chargen is the new DDoS tool?
From: Bernhard Schmidt <berni () birkenwald de>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 15:39:32 +0000 (UTC)
Heya everyone, we have been getting reports lately about unsecured UDP chargen servers in our network being abused for reflection attacks with spoofed sources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_Generator_Protocol | In the UDP implementation of the protocol, the server sends a UDP | datagram containing a random number (between 0 and 512) of characters | every time it receives a datagram from the connecting host. Any data | received by the server is discarded. We are seeing up to 1500 bytes of response though. This seems to be something new. There aren't a lot of systems in our network responding to chargen, but those that do have a 15x amplification factor and generate more traffic than we have seen with abused open resolvers. Anyone else seeing that? Anyone who can think of a legitimate use of chargen/udp these days? Fortunately I can't, so we're going to drop 19/udp at the border within the next hours. Regards, Bernhard
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- chargen is the new DDoS tool? Bernhard Schmidt (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Brielle Bruns (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Bernhard Schmidt (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Ricky Beam (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Majdi S. Abbas (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Joe Hamelin (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Ricky Beam (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Ricky Beam (Jun 11)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? shawn wilson (Jun 12)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Jimmy Hess (Jun 12)
- Re: chargen is the new DDoS tool? Brielle Bruns (Jun 11)