New DDoS Attack Delivers an Extra Payload: A Cryptocurrency Ransom Note

 

GitHub, a popular webbased hosting service that focuses on code sharing, was the target of a particular type of DDoS attack, dubbed the memcached attack, on February 28, 2018. If not for the timely intervention and expertise of the Akamai team who helped fend off the attack, GitHub users would have …

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