What is a DDoS attack?
Distributed Denial of Service attack, or for short a DDoS attack, is a cyber-attack which purpose is to cause an online service unavailable to users. Commonly, it disrupts the services of the hosting server. In order to initiate the DDoS attack, a lot of compromised devices spread all over the world are required. They are commonly known as a botnet. The main goal is to flood the target and overwhelm it with malicious traffic.
A potential target of a DDoS attack could be each website on the Internet. Each online business could not afford to experience its website being down for a long period of time. That is going to involve a great loss of potential clients. Find out more additional information about DDoS attacks!