XSS flaw in popular video-sharing site enabled DDoS attack through visitors’ browsers

Attackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular video-sharing site to hijack users' browsers for use in a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack, according to researchers from Web security firm Incapsula.

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