{"id":135794,"date":"2015-08-20T08:04:41","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=135794"},"modified":"2015-08-20T08:07:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T06:07:05","slug":"a-new-ddos-reflection-attack-portmapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/135794-a-new-ddos-reflection-attack-portmapper.html","title":{"rendered":"A new DDoS Reflection Attack: Portmapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Level 3 announced that it has witnessed an alarming trend in both traffic behaviour and DDoS methods following\u00a0the introduction of a new DDoS vector: Portmapper.<\/p>\n<p>Portmapper (also referred to as rpcbind, portmap, or RPC Portmapper) is a mechanism to which Remote Procedure Call (RPC) services register to allow for calls to be made to the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>The Portmapper vector is the latest method for DDoS reflection attacks, which have caused havoc in the past.<\/p>\n<p>It has already been used in a number of attacks, with the largest impact to organisations taking place over 10 &#8211; 12 August.<\/p>\n<p>These attacks targeted only a subset of verticals, primarily focused on gaming, hosting, and Internet infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLevel 3\u2019s Threat Research Labs\u2019 goal is for the industry to use this early warning to help stop or slow any future impacts,\u201d the company said.<\/p>\n<p><em>Full details about the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.level3.com\/security\/a-new-ddos-reflection-attack-portmapper-an-early-warning-to-the-industry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Portmapper DDoS vector are available here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on DDoS attacks<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/134976-large-ddos-attacks-often-use-syn-and-udp-vectors.html\">Large DDoS attacks often use SYN and UDP vectors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/130644-massive-increase-in-ddos-attacks.html\">Massive increase in DDoS attacks<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level 3 has released new information regarding a DDoS attack using a Portmapper vector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":85121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[36,2242,32304],"class_list":["post-135794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-active","tag-ddos","tag-portmapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135794"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135810,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135794\/revisions\/135810"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}