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Windows Server Running SMB over QUIC Let Attacker Launch DoS Attacks

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2024 12:37 pm
by Shane1145
QUIC, created by Google, is a modern transport layer protocol aimed at enhancing connection reliability and security while addressing latency and packet loss issues utilizing UDP.

Microsoft’s QUIC implementation is known as MsQuic, utilized for SMB and HTTP/3 in IIS on Windows Server 2022, with SMB over QUIC exclusive to the Azure edition.


Cybersecurity analysts at Akamai reported that threat actors actively exploit the Microsoft Windows Server 2022 vulnerability to launch DoS attacks.

https://cybersecuritynews.com/microsoft ... erability/