RangeAmp is a series of CDN attacks that manipulates the Range HTTP header.
A team of researchers from Peking University, Tsinghua University and the University of Texas at Dallas has identified a new class of DoS attacks - RangeAmp, based on the use of the Range HTTP header to amplify traffic through content delivery networks (CDNs). The essence of the method is that due to the way Range headers are processed in many CDNs, an attacker can request one byte from a large file via the CDN, but […]
