Democratization of DDoS
While The recent spate of attacks and reports on DDoS have raised the profile of the attack vector, warnings about DDoS and its impact are not new. In 2011 VeriSign reported that 63 percent of enterprises had been hit by a DDoS. At the time, VeriSign also reported that the average cost to defend against a DDoS was $2.5 million.
how to perform a ddos attack?
Regardless of how much DDoS is growing in terms of attacks and bandwidth, the bottom line is that it is becoming increasingly more common for a number of simple reasons.
"The availability of DDoS attack tools enable anyone with an Internet connection to launch attacks," Morales said. "The democratization of DDoS has made it accessible to the masses."
In addition to the availability of tools, the increasing proliferation of botnets is a key factor, enabling modern DDoS attacks.
"We’ve gone from hijacked PCs to tools that enable opt-in participation in botnets to most recently, seeing smaller botnets comprised of high speed Web servers for Joomla and Wordpress sites," Morales said. "These botnets are smaller than typical PC-botnets, but they enable high volume, high speed attacks."
Over the course of this month, at least 90,000 IP addresses have been involved in a brute force attack against WordPress websites. A suspected aim of the attack is the enrollment of compromised WordPress sites into a botnet.
how to perform a ddos attack?
Regardless of how much DDoS is growing in terms of attacks and bandwidth, the bottom line is that it is becoming increasingly more common for a number of simple reasons.
"The availability of DDoS attack tools enable anyone with an Internet connection to launch attacks," Morales said. "The democratization of DDoS has made it accessible to the masses."
In addition to the availability of tools, the increasing proliferation of botnets is a key factor, enabling modern DDoS attacks.
"We’ve gone from hijacked PCs to tools that enable opt-in participation in botnets to most recently, seeing smaller botnets comprised of high speed Web servers for Joomla and Wordpress sites," Morales said. "These botnets are smaller than typical PC-botnets, but they enable high volume, high speed attacks."
Over the course of this month, at least 90,000 IP addresses have been involved in a brute force attack against WordPress websites. A suspected aim of the attack is the enrollment of compromised WordPress sites into a botnet.
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