We started seeing big memcached attacks on Friday 2/23 and sending out
tailored abuse emails directly to reflectors late Saturday night (2/24).
For us, attack sizes peaked on Sunday/Monday, and the last couple of
days have involved much smaller attacks. Today's memcached attacks have
been the s
Possibly related to all the outages reports this morning, I'm seeing packetloss
and outages at 3 top-tier hosting facilities run by 3 separate companies; 2 on
the eastern coast, 1 on the west.
All 3 are blaming it on memcached amplification mitigation.
Buckle up, boys! (and girls)
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