What Is DDoS and What Are DDoS Attacks?
Flashpoint, January 3rd, 2023
A tool favored by many threat actors, distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks seek to make a targeted machine or network resource unavailable to its users-using overwhelming amounts of traffic, such as incoming messages, connections requests, and malformed packets-to substantially slow the system, or force it to crash.
In this article, we explore how DDoS attacks work, types of DDoS attacks, and the damaging impact they could have on organizations-plus tips on how to prepare for, prevent, and respond to a DDoS attack.
How DDoS attacks work To accomplish this, a DDoS attack uses a botnet, which is a network of computers controlled by malware that sends requests to the target's IP address. The use of botnets distinguishes DDoS attacks from DoS (Denial-of-Service) attacks-in which overloading traffic is sent from only one attacking machine...