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		hueving on March 2, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: February 28th DDoS Incident Report This particular case relied on botnets being able to spoof their their source IP to match github's so the memcached responses would go to github. Google 'DRDoS attacks' to learn more. They are responsible for most of the largest volume attacks IIUC.

dec0dedab0de on March 3, 2018 [–]

I understand the attack, I dont understand how it could be mitigated using the same technique.

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