What is a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack?
How does it work?
Very often we hear about the DDoS attack Distributed Denial of Service.
A DDoS attack is one of the most common attacks that the internet world faces very often.
In fact, the previous year had seen tremendous growth in such attacks.
However, do you know how DDoS attack works?
So, what is DDoS Attack & How it works?
After being infected, these botnets could be controlled remotely by the hackers.
Now, these botnets are sold on the deep web to carry out DDoS attacks.
One of the famous and most destructive botnets is known as Mirai which houses over 380,000 botnets.
Why Hackers Choose DDoS attacks?
The motives for the attacks can be varied, however,revenge is often a motive in these cases.
On some worst situation, attackers might also demand money to stop the DDoS attack.
For more information, you’re free to also take a look at the infographic shared below.
The infographic is created by an Ireland-based security firm known as Barricade.
The infographic can help you to clear all your doubts regarding DDoS attacks and how it works.
