New ‘Loop DoS’ Attack Impacts Hundreds of Thousands of Systems

A novel denial-of-service (DoS) attack vector has been found to target application-layer protocols based on User Datagram Protocol (UDP), putting hundreds of thousands of hosts likely at risk.
Called Loop DoS attacks, the approach pairs « servers of these protocols in such a way that they communicate with each other indefinitely, » researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz-Center for