BitTorrent vulnerability to DRDoS attacks uncovered
Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - 09:00
in Mathematics & Economics
A quartet of researchers, two with City University of London and one each with PLUMgrid Inc. and THM Friedberg has released a paper first shown at the recent USENIX Woot '15, detailing what they claim is a major vulnerability of the BitTorrent protocol. The problem is that it opens up BitTorrent hosts to distributed reflective denial of service (DRDoS) attacks—by as few as one single perpetuator. Such attacks are becoming a bigger problem as BitTorrent communities have grown in size over the past several years—they now number in the millions.