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DDoS attacks on the rise

In the ”DDoS Attacks in Q1 2019” report, it was revealed that the total number of DDoS attacks climbed by 84% and the number of sustained (over 60 minutes) DDoS sessions doubled, with the average duration of the attack increased by 4.21 times. how does a distributed denial of service attack differ from a regular denial of service attack ? The report explained: “Over the last six months of the previous year, we have been observing less the redistribution of botnet capacity for other purposes and more the emergence of a market vacuum. Most likely, the supply deficit was linked to the clamping down on DDoS attacks, the closure of sites selling related services, and the arrest of some major players over the past year. “Now it seems the vacuum is being filled: such explosive growth in the indicators is almost certainly due to the appearance of new suppliers and clients of DDoS services.” Kaspersky Lab suggested that the exponential growth in attacks, could be due to the launch of

What is the definition of DDoS?

Imagine a mob of shoppers on Black Friday trying to enter a store through a revolving door, but a group of hooligans block the shoppers by going round and round the door like a carousel. There’s lots of pushing and shoving and griping, and the legitimate shoppers can’t get in to buy anything. Business comes to a standstill. Know more:  an attacker sets up 100 drone This is DDoS, or Distributed Denial of Service , which is a malicious network attack that involves hackers forcing numerous Internet-connected devices to send network communication requests to one specific service or website with the intention of overwhelming it with false traffic or requests. This has the effect of tying up all available resources to deal with these requests, and crashing the web server or distracting it enough that normal users cannot create a connection between their systems and the server. To pull off a DDoS attack, hackers need an army of zombie computers to do their bidding. Hackers use what we