Topic

LDAP amplification attacks

3 mentions in 1 episode

Also known as LDAP amplification

The speakers discuss exposed LDAP servers and say requests to them can produce substantially larger responses.

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183: Throwing Pagers at Squirrels

  • 44:43

    They observed exploitation of something called LDAP, which stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol.

  • 45:04

    Over 140,000 systems responding to requests over port 389

  • 45:59

    You get an amplification factor of about 50 times what you're sending out.