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ICANN SSAC on DDoS, DNS and BCP 38

ID: c5ac4bc1-e8ec-544c-a169-442c243644c7

STIX ID: report--c5ac4bc1-e8ec-544c-a169-442c243644c7

Feed Name: The Spamhaus Project

Date Published: 2014-02-26

Date Updated: 2026-04-30

Author: The Spamhaus Team

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The report reviews an ICANN SSAC advisory on DDoS attacks leveraging DNS infrastructure, highlighting the risks from approximately 28 million open DNS resolvers and urging adoption of BCP 38 ingress filtering and secure DNS/NTP configurations to reduce amplification/reflection attacks; it emphasizes remediation, operator education, and broader mitigation to reduce Internet-wide DDoS risk.

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