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DDoS Attacks Get Bigger, Smarter, and More Diverse

Accepted submission by canopic jug at 2018-07-19 08:24:46 from the Windows-TCO dept.
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canopic jug [soylentnews.org] writes:

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have been getting more polished [threatpost.com], in what, who, and how they target their victims. Threatpost has an article looking at some of the changes over the recent years regarding new techniques, new targets, and a new class of attackers.

Several new themes are emerging in the 2018 distributed denial of service (DDoS) threat landscape, including a shift in tactics to reach new heights in volumetric campaigns, attacks that rely on a sheer wall of large amounts of packet traffic to overwhelm the capacity of a website and take it town.

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