Check Point Reference: | CPAI-2011-423 |
Date Published: | 20 Sep 2011 |
Severity: | Medium |
Last Updated: | Saturday 01 January, 2011 |
Source: | |
Protection Provided by: | |
Who is Vulnerable? | Web-Servers |
Vulnerability Description | A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) threat by a Bitcoin Mining botnet has been reported. |
Vulnerability Details | The botnet attacks are used by attackers for Bitcoin Mining. The DDoS components distributed through the botnet enable HTTP flooding attacks, aka HTTP Hammering. These attacks are aimed to cause the server to crash or become unresponsive. |