2. • What is a DDOS Attack? “DDoS” is the acronym for distributed denial-
of-service. A distributed denial-of-service attack means an attempt to
disrupt the normal traffic in a particular/targeted server by making a
huge number of requests from various computers and causing
massive traffic in that targeted server to cause service interruption.
• These attacks achieve success by destroying service to normal users
through directing huge traffic from compromised multiple computers
or different network devices such as IoT devices.
3. • For example, when you are going for a trip on vacation, and suddenly
you stop at a point due to a huge traffic jam consisting of cars lined up
for miles on that road, you check your GPS, and there’s no way out!
• So, standing cars are the flooded requests made by the attacker, and
you are the normal user unable to use the service (here, in a sense,
the road).
• Ok, you saw what DDoS is and now get into the types of DDOS attack
and how it works…
4. HOW DOES A DDOS ATTACK WORK?
• DDoS attacks are mainly carried out by compromised devices consisting of
computers, mobile phones, network devices, IoT devices etc. These
compromised devices are called bots, and a network comprising of these
bots, called a botnet, is single-handedly operated by an attacker to perform
a DDoS attack on targeted servers.
• Here’s how a botnet can be created.
