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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Charles Stanhope"):
niconiconi@cybre.space wrote:
Weaponizing Censorship Middleboxes for TCP Reflected Traffic Amplification Attack
> Most of these nation-states are weak amplifiers (the Great Firewall of China only offers about 1.5x amplification, for example), but some of them offer more damaging amplifications, such as Saudi Arabia (~20x amplification)
And....
> We found a small number of infinite routing loops that traversed censorship infrastructure (notably in both China and Russia) that offered *infinite* amplification. 💣💥
https://geneva.cs.umd.edu/posts/usenix21-weaponizing-censors/
Many years ago, a friend of mine told me it may be possible to exploit the Great Firewall of China for reflected amplification DDoS. This attack is real! #censorship #infosec #ddos