{"id":4974,"date":"2018-03-13T22:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2018-03-13T22:34:06","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T14:34:06","slug":"memcrashed-memcached-ddos-exploit-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2018\/03\/memcrashed-memcached-ddos-exploit-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Memcrashed &#8211; Memcached DDoS Exploit Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Memcrashed is a Memcached DDoS exploit tool written in Python that allows you to send forged UDP packets to a list of Memcached servers obtained from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2014\/06\/shodan-internet-computer-search-engine\/\">Shodan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Memcrashed-Memcached-DDoS-Exploit-Tool-640x320.png\" alt=\"Memcrashed - Memcached DDoS Exploit Tool\" width=\"640\" height=\"320\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4980\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Memcrashed-Memcached-DDoS-Exploit-Tool-640x320.png 640w, https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Memcrashed-Memcached-DDoS-Exploit-Tool.png 957w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Darknet Responsive Post Ad Links [previously link ad unit] -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3033787195489589\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"5456620019\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<p>This is related to the recent record-breaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.darknet.org.uk\/2018\/03\/memcached-ddos-attacks-will-be-big-in-2018\/\">Memcached DDoS attacks<\/a> that are likely to plague 2018 with over 100,000 vulnerable Memcached servers showing up in Shodan.<\/p>\n<h2>What is Memcached?<\/h2>\n<p>Memcached is an in-memory key-value store for small chunks of arbitrary data (strings, objects) from results of database calls, API calls, or page rendering.<\/p>\n<p>Free &#038; open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.<\/p>\n<h2>Requirements for Memcrashed Memcached DDoS Exploit Tool<\/h2>\n<p>You need to have Python 3.x installed:<\/p>\n<pre>apt-get install python3<\/pre>\n<p>And you also need Scapy and Shodan Python modules:<\/p>\n<pre>pip install scapy<\/pre>\n<pre>pip install shodan<\/pre>\n<p>The tool also requires you own an upgraded Shodan API key.<\/p>\n<p>You can download Memcrashed here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/649\/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit\/archive\/master.zip\">Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit-master.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Or read more <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/649\/Memcrashed-DDoS-Exploit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Memcrashed is a Memcached DDoS exploit tool written in Python that allows you to send forged UDP packets to a list of Memcached servers obtained from Shodan. This is related to the recent record-breaking Memcached DDoS attacks that are likely to plague 2018 with over 100,000 vulnerable Memcached servers showing up in Shodan. 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