Shannon Morse

ACTION ALERT (Patreon)

Published:

2021-02-04 16:05:41

Imported:

2022-07

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Plex Media servers actively abused to amplify DDoS attacks

For Plex users, it's likely that the newest version of plex released in late January will mitigate the issue. For network ops, ID any PMSSDP reflectors / amplifiers on the networks that could be abused. Disable SSDP. More info in the link above.

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Plex Media servers actively abused to amplify DDoS attacks

Plex Media Server systems are actively being abused by DDoS-for-hire services as a UDP reflection/amplification vector in Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Plex Media Server provides users with a streaming system compatible with the Windows, macOS, Linux, and FreeBSD platforms, as well as network-attached storage (NAS) devices, Docker containers, and more.