What is a DDoS Attack? A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server, service or network. What happens is a suspicious subject compromises vulnerable infrastructures, or easily exploited computers from anyone and uses those machines to target a point of interest as depicted in the image. Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources such as IoT devices. Another way at looking at a DDoS attack is like a banana being stuck into a tail pipe and preventing a vehicle from breathing. Consequently, the vehicle can shut down and no longer operate. How Exactly does a DDoS attack work? The subject aiming to do damage will compromise other machines and networks and turn those into his worker bots, thereby taking control on the infrastructure and using all of them at one time to target a machine that he aims to bring down. This is essentially called a botnet. That is, all of the compromised machines become his army of deterring bots and they are used to attack like an army of troops. Why would someone want to do this? A number of reasons could explain why a person would want […]
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