New Win-DDoS Flaws Let Attackers Turn Public Domain Controllers into DDoS Botnet via RPC, LDAP

Threat Score:
80
The Hacker News
4 hours ago

Overview

A novel attack technique could be weaponized to rope thousands of public domain controllers (DCs) around the world to create a malicious botnet and use it to conduct power distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The approach has been codenamed Win-DDoS by SafeBreach researchers Or Yair and Shahak Morag, whopresentedtheir findings at the DEF CON 33 security conference today. "As we explored the intricacies of the Windows LDAP client code, we discovered a significant flaw that allowed us to ...

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