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XSS Vulnerability in Sohu.com Leveraged for Large-Scale DDOS Attacks

28
Apr
2014

At the beginning of April, researchers from Incapsula revealed that a vulnerability in the website of a high-profile video content provider was being abused by cybercriminals to launch large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. It turns out that the website is Sohu.com.

Many people rushed to assume that the high-profile video content provider, which Incapsula didnt name before the vulnerability was patched, was YouTube. It turns out that it wasnt You…

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