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Jonathan Respeto

Senior Security Intelligence Response Team Engineer

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Akamai Blog | New DDoS Vector Observed in the Wild: WSD Attacks Hitting 35/Gbps

September 18, 2019Jonathan Respeto

Additional research and support provided by Chad Seaman. Introduction Members of Akamai's Security Intelligence Response Team have been investigating a new DDoS vector that leverages a UDP Amplification technique known as WS-Discovery (WSD). The situation surrounding WSD was recently made...