- Aug 17, 2014
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The WireX botnet presented defenders with many superlatives: the largest mobile botnet ever; hundreds of mobile apps spreading application-layer DDoS malware; unprecedented cooperation between technology companies—even competitors—to halt some of its activities.
And now a companion piece to WireX has emerged that retreats right back to traditional DDoS activity, concentrating on UDP flood attacks through Android devices.
Researchers at F5 Labs said the bot sample they’ve analyzed creates 50 simultaneous threads, each capable of sending 10 million UDP packets, each packet weighing in at 512 bytes. The severity of these attacks depends on the infected device hardware, according to F5 security research manager Maxim Zavodchik.
Full article: WireX Variant Capable of UDP Flood Attacks
And now a companion piece to WireX has emerged that retreats right back to traditional DDoS activity, concentrating on UDP flood attacks through Android devices.
Researchers at F5 Labs said the bot sample they’ve analyzed creates 50 simultaneous threads, each capable of sending 10 million UDP packets, each packet weighing in at 512 bytes. The severity of these attacks depends on the infected device hardware, according to F5 security research manager Maxim Zavodchik.
Full article: WireX Variant Capable of UDP Flood Attacks
