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NTP Protocol Abused in DDOS Attacks on Gaming Servers

09
Jan
2014

In December 2013, Symantec warned that cybercriminals were increasingly abusing the Network Time Protocol (NTP) for distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks. Experts say that this type of attack was also used to disrupt popular online gaming services in the first days of 2014.

The list of targeted games includes World…

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