More and more worlds are connected digitally, the more risk of cyber crime increases.
In this article, we will focus on certain types of cyberattack called DDoS (pronounced ‘D-DOS’).
First, you must be curious about what this term means, which is a cross between initialism and acronyms and is honest, can be interpreted as both.
Let’s try to understand.
What is meant by ‘DDoS’DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service.
In other words, ‘refusal services’ for regular online traffic from certain websites or services.
In this type of cyberattack, the cyber actors send a large number of data through the network / service / online server to flood it, basically carrying it or making it stop functioning.
When we say most data, we mean a large amount of internet traffic from various sources.
After the network / service / server online goes down and / or infrastructure around the targeted server is affected, the hackers can easily enter the system they want to use for their own benefit.
Understanding what the hackers do to want regular online traffic to be like that on a busy road on certain days.
Now consider someone managed (hypothetically) to introduce hundreds of vehicles at a certain point (large pieces of unexpected online traffic or attack traffic), what will happen? The road will be very clogged that regular online traffic will not be able to achieve its objectives (the intended server).
This is what DDoS attacks do.
How the Ddos Cyberattack workhacker first sent malware to computer networks / systems / iot devices they want to target.
The device is infected with malware and then naturally becomes part of an infected network and functions individually as a bot (or zombie).
The entire network compromised is called botnet.
After a network of infected devices or botnets are built, the path for hackers to exploit open devices and they can control each bot remotely (or malware infected devices) on the network.
Now, each bot sends a request to the target IP address, so it has a high chance to go beyond it, which causes the refusal-service ‘for regular online traffic.
Because each bot is part of the network of victims and registered devices, it is quite difficult to identify and separate attack traffic from regular traffic.
How to know whether you are the victims of DdoSwhenever’s attacks websites or online services suddenly slowing down or breaking down, there is a possibility targeted by DDoS attacks.
Now, because this site can slow down or not available because Spurt in regular traffic too and also because of several other causes, online traffic analysis tools can help identify several classical signs of DDoS attacks.
Some of them include a major traffic surge from users with a single behavior profile (such as location, certain devices or web browser versions), unusual and suspicious online traffic that comes from a single IP address or IP range, a surge in demand that cannot be explained One page or end point, the nail suddenly in traffic at odd hours or at certain time intervals, etc.
We will discuss the various steps taken in our upcoming articles.