April 15, 2023, 1:50 a.m. | /u/namidaka

cybersecurity www.reddit.com

Hello,
Our gameserver has been under repeated ddos attack (around 16 attacks ) between 2 and 6 a day.

I've had to learned the basics of ddos security in less than a week.

So i ended up doing a script that records 1 packet every 100 only during high bandwidth event in a pcap file and analyzed the pcap in wireshark to identify the attack vectors

The attack was multifactor

1) Dns amplification attack , they were contacting legit dns …

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