The infamous DDoS attack, explained visually.

ODOS Minutes after the New York Magazine featured its cover showing 35 alleged victims of assault by Bill Cosby, the entire website went offline for over 12+ hours. The victim of an apparent DDOS attack by a hacker who also threatened to destroy many other "state, city, agency and court websites of the United States". It serves as a reminder of how relatively easy it is to take down a major website using this type of DDOS attack. What is a DDOS attack? DDOS stands for Distributed Denial of Service, A DDOS Attack is a malicious attempt to make a server or a network resource unavailable to users. Hackers will fire vast amounts of traffic to your site from different servers at a rapid pace. 000 New York Magazine Website Overload Eventually your site will 'catch fire' and refuse to show, due to not being able to cope with the undergoing attack. Why? Smokescreens DDOS attacks are often used as smokescreens for larger Data Breaches or intrusive attacks, Because DDOS attacks require a large group of staff to mitigate the attack, employees are Usually focused elsewhere as all hands are already on deck. Hacktivism() {*} A DDOS attack is a non-intrusive attack and the Hacker rarely profits from it, unless it's being used as a smokescreen. Most DDOS attacks are acts of Hacktivism, i.e) When the hacker collective Anonymous undertook a major DDOS attack against the church of Scientology. Where do they originate? 7.03% - U.S.A 55.2% - China 8.69% - India ... How widespread are they? 니 520 45% The percentage of organisations that are attacked. 10% are attacked on BARRICADEIO a weekly basis. DDOS attacks | || 2 || 3 account for a huge amount of cyber attacks on organisations. 니 What are the costs involved? 90% 24 6 Hours $40,000 90% The average length of a DDOS attack. The average cost per hour of a DDOS attack to the The chance that you will be attacked again, after experiencing an initial DDOS attack. receiving party. 100 GB/S $17 Million 100 sbps $17 $150 Million 'The bigger they are, the harder they fall." DDOS attacks ranging from 100 Gb/s are no The average cost of a DDOS attack per hour in the financial services industry. The figure you can purchase a one-week long DDOS attack on the DarkWeb for. longer uncommon. BARRICADE The early warning system against hackers. www.barricade.io @barricadeio --------- ------- ----