7 common DDoS attack types Let us take a look at some of the standard attack types when it comes to DDoS attacks: 1. UDP flood: A UDP flood can be defined as a DDoS attack that floods random ports on remote targets with UDP (User Datagram Protocol) packets. This causes the host to...
The attack itself appears to have been made with theMirai botnet. Thisopen-source botnetscans for devices usingtheir default username and password credentials. Anyone can use it -- China, you, thekid next door -- to generate DDoS attacks. For truly damaging DDoS barrages, you need to know ...
A DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack usesmany remotecomputers in a network to achieve this goal. It’s actually similar to the“Slashdot effect,”where legitimate, unprecedented traffic (often due to a link from a high-traffic website) can cause a site slowdown or crash. However, w...
Be sure to check out the first part here on accelerating your games with Amazon CloudFront So what exactly is a DDoS attack? A DDoS attack impacts the availability or performance of your game by targeting it with more traffic than it can effectively handle (think: mindless zombie horde of ...
The most common way to execute a DDoS attack is to flood a business with requests for information. The goal is to create a wave of “false traffic” (a lot more than the Web server typically handles and is built for) that prevents normal customer traffic from getting through. The company...
DDoS Attacks Adistributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attackis a type of cyberattack in which multiple compromised devices (often part of a botnet) are used to flood a target server, network or website with an overwhelming amount of traffic. The goal is to exhaust the target’s resources, cau...
Zero-day DDoS attacks: Leveraging previously unknown vulnerabilities, attackers launch swift and potent DDoS assaults, making them particularly challenging to defend against. Botnet attacks: Using a network of compromised devices, known as a botnet, attackers coordinate a synchronized flood of traffic to...
as a moderate threat by presenting them with a challenge page before allowing them to continue to your site. However, if your site is the target of a DDoS attack, that may not be enough to keep your site operational. In this case, theI’m Under Attack Modemight be appropriate fo...
Anti-DDoS Origin Basic, how to prevent blackhole filtering, and how to deactivate blackhole filtering,Web Application Firewall:After you purchase a Web Application Firewall (WAF) instance, Anti-DDoS Origin Basic can mitigate up to 5 Gbit/s of DDoS atta
Learn how to use Cloudflare to help defend against DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks on your web site with "Under Attack" mode, as well as whitelist specific IP addresses.