Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations' networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a world of hurt — and website downtime — and it's quite likely your competitors are to blame. Cloudflare, in its most recent quarterly DDoS …
I thought the point was denial of service. Ten minutes max of denial is nothing. Borkzilla's Azure does hours, or even days at the drop of a hat.
Oh, and a disgruntled user ? So, somebody who goes on the Dark Web (because they're not advertising on Google, if I'm not mistaken), contacts some criminal hacker group and rents their service for ten minutes ?
Those hackers must be selling pretty cheap. On the other hand, they haven't bought the equipment they've hacked, so it likely doesn't cost them much.
I guess there can be lasting effects - stuff needing reboots, etc.
That said, the point of a DDoS is what the attackers wanted to do. The classic is "DDoS on a player in an online game", which only needs to last long enough for the attacker to win the game (or make the target lose). Maybe it's cover for another attack. Maybe it's just testing for a response. Maybe the intent is just to have the target "randomly" go down - do that often enough and it'll make their service look unreliable, costing them customers without as much publicity as a complete take-down.
Also, from what I've seen - some of them are just badly written web scrapers. Some %age of what cloudflare is calling a DDoS could well be people hunting for things to shovel into their LLM.
A ten minute DDOS that likely won't do anything since mitigation is common everywhere now. Nothing about this take away makes any sense. Goes to show the people that they surveyed have no clue behind root causes which is obviously the point of the first D in the DDOS.
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