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Mēris Botnet Hit Russia's Yandex With Massive 22 Million RPS DDoS Attack

The Hacker Newsby @TheHackersNews ()2 min read3
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CVEVulnerabilityCVSSEPSSSignalsPublished
CVE-2018-14847
Directory Traversal in MikroTik RouterOS Winbox Interface (Unauthenticated File Read)
9.196%KEVPoC ×7
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2 min read at thehackernews.com

Russian internet giant Yandex has been the target of a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by a new botnet called Mēris. The botnet is believed to have pummeled the company's web infrastructure with millions of HTTP requests, before hitting a peak of 21.

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