content: Their experiments reveal that an attacker is able to exploit BitTorrent peers to amplify the traffic up to a factor of 50 times and in case of BTSync, up to 120 times. The paper shows that an attacker can exploit BitTorrent protocols (Micro Transport Protocol (uTP), Distributed Hash Table (DHT) and Message Stream Encryption (MSE)) as well as BitTorrent Sync (BTSync) to reflect and amplify traffic from peers, assisting in a DDoS attack.