Cyberattacks are now part of everyday life, but attackers continue to innovate and surprise us. DDoS (distributed denial of service) attacks are one of the oldest tools in the arsenal of hackers and other online pests. The goal of this attack is to flood servers with large amounts of information in a short period of time, disrupting their activity and bringing down the service that uses them. For example, if a denial-of-service attack is carried out on web hosting servers, the websites hosted on them may become unavailable to users. As the level of protection and security of servers continues to improve, attackers are increasing the volume to try to overcome it anyway. DDoS is considered a crude and unsophisticated form of attack, and the only way to make it better, in fact, is to try to increase it.
Microsoft recently reported that it repelled the largest denial-of-service attack in history. The attack occurred in November 2021 and had a volume of 3.47 terabits per second. The attack came from more than 10,000 sources simultaneously and from at least 10 different countries, including Taiwan, the US, Iran, and Indonesia. During December, Microsoft stopped another attack, with a volume of 3.25 terabits per second. For comparison, the largest attack recorded to date was in mid-2021, with a volume of 2.37 terabits per second.
One of the methods attackers use to amplify DDoS attacks is to expand the attack network. To do this, hackers add as many computers and servers as possible to their network, and even locate servers that are not properly configured and use them as part of their attack array.
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