Date: 03/25/06 (Java Web)    Keywords: no keywords

In a vicious twist of standard DDOS attacks, now attackers are using the DNS servers to do their dirty work. They send requests to DNS server with a spoofed reply address pointing to the victim's machine. This helps to easily mask the attack. Also the size of DNS response can be several times larger tha the [...]

Source: http://blog.taragana.com/index.php/archive/dns-servers-leveraged-for-ddos-attacks/