Malicious actors are using old routers in homes and small-scale networks to launch distributed denial of service, or DDoS, attacks, exploiting an extremely outdated routing protocol. Content delivery ...

Servers could be haunted by a ghost from the 1980s, as hackers have started abusing an obsolete routing protocol to launch distributed denial-of-service attacks. DDoS attacks observed in May by the ...

Attackers are using a three-decades-old Internet protocol for passing network information between routers to target systems and networks with massive floods of data, network-security firms said in ...

The RIPv1 routing protocol is being used to launch DDoS attacks against many hosts on the Internet, according to an Akamai threat report Routing Information Protocol (RIP), an obsolete network routing ...