A DDoS attack is an attempt to crash an online service by flooding it with synthetically generated traffic. Learn about DDoS attacks and DDoS protection.
While it is possible to trace a DDoS attack, the process is extremely complex and time-consuming. You may be able to uncover a single authentic IP address in a DoS attack, but a major effort like a DDoS attack has thousands or more addresses to follow. For most businesses, the effort j...
While multiple types of DDoS attack exist, they mostly all use spam sent from a network of infected devices and seek to disrupt a website’s normal functionality by flooding it with traffic. What does DDoS mean? DDoS means “distributed denial of service.” A DDoS attack is usually distribut...
To make the threat sound more dangerous, the attacker may claim to be capable of carrying out a DDoS attack of a certain size and duration. These claims are not necessarily true: just because someone claims to be capable of a 3 Tbps attack that lasts 24 hours does not mean they actually...
While some malware, such as ransomware, will have a direct impact on the owner of the device, DDoS botnet malware can have different levels of visibility; some malware is designed to take total control of a device, while other malware runs silently as a background process while waiting silent...
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The purpose of DDoS attacks is to severely slow down or stop legitimate traffic from reaching its intended destination. For example, this could mean stopping a user from accessing a website, buying a product or service, watching a video, or interacting on social media. Additionally, by making...
The purpose of DDoS attacks is to severely slow down or stop legitimate traffic from reaching its intended destination. For example, this could mean stopping a user from accessing a website, buying a product or service, watching a video, or interacting on social media. Additionally, by making...
But in the case of a DDoS attack, there are some tell-tale signs that it's a malicious and targeted campaign. Often DDoS attacks are designed to cause disruption over a sustained period of time, which could mean sudden spikes in malicious traffic at intervals causing...
To make the threat sound more dangerous, the attacker may claim to be capable of carrying out a DDoS attack of a certain size and duration. These claims are not necessarily true: just because someone claims to be capable of a 3 Tbps attack that lasts 24 hours does not mean they actually...