News FBI warns of new DDoS attack vectors: CoAP, WS-DD, ARMS, and Jenkins

The Federal Bureau of Investigation sent an alert last week warning about the discovery of new network protocols that have been abused to launch large-scale distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.

The alert lists three network protocols and a web application as newly discovered DDoS attack vectors.

The list includes CoAP (Constrained Application Protocol), WS-DD (Web Services Dynamic Discovery), ARMS (Apple Remote Management Service), and the Jenkins web-based automation...
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FBI warns of new DDoS attack vectors: CoAP, WS-DD, ARMS, and Jenkins