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RadioactiveMan on Dec 30, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Q&A with hackers who say they helped break into So...

Amplification attacks can be used to gain huge boosts in bandwidth.[1] For example, in the attack on Spamhaus in 2013[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack#Refle... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberBunker#Spamhaus

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