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BlackHat Write-up: go-derper and mining memcaches

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Feed Name: SensePost Blog

Date Published: 2010-08-04

Date Updated: 2026-04-29

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This write-up introduces go-derper, a tool for probing exposed memcached servers, demonstrating how to fingerprint active caches, mine stored data at scale (with regex-based triage), and overwrite cache entries—underscoring the security risks of widely deployed, misconfigured memcached instances in large web and cloud environments.

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