DDoS attacks are a common tactic for hackers that can cause wide-spread disruption. The opening of the latest expansion, Battle for Azeroth, was held up by Blizzard’s servers being knocked out in an attack on Sunday night.
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A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault happens when several computers overwhelm a targeted system’s bandwidth or resources, generally one or more web servers. A DDoS assault employs a large number of distinct IP addresses or devices, frequently tens of thousands of compromised hosts. A distributed denial of service attack is one that includes more than 3–5 nodes on multiple networks; a DoS assault with fewer nodes is not a DDoS attack.
Numerous attack machines may create more attack traffic than a single attack machine, multiple attack machines are more difficult to switch off than a single attack machine, and each attack machine’s activity can be more stealthy, making it more difficult to detect and shut down. Because the incoming traffic overwhelming the target comes from a variety of sources, utilizing ingress filtering alone may not be enough to halt the assault. It’s also difficult to tell the difference between normal user traffic and attack traffic when it’s dispersed across several origins. Attacks that utilize the fabrication of IP sender addresses (IP address spoofing) as an alternative or addition to a DDoS may make detecting and repelling the assault even more difficult. The advantages of the attacker provide a challenge to defensive measures. Purchasing more incoming bandwidth than the current volume of the assault, for example, could not be enough since the attacker might just add additional attack machines.
DDoS assaults have grown in size in recent years, reaching a peak of a terabit per second in 2016. UDP flooding, SYN flooding, and DNS amplification are all forms of DDoS assaults.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is Battlenet getting DDoS?
A: No, Battlenet is not getting DDoS. There are no known issues with their network at the moment.
Is launching a DDoS attack illegal?
A: It is illegal in most states, though it can be hard to prosecute.
What are the 3 types of DDoS attacks?
A: There are three types of DDoS attacks. The first is a volumetric attack, which entails flooding the server with traffic in order to disrupt service or prevent access by clients. The second type is a SYN flood attack where an attacker sends maliciously crafted TCP requests to the target system in rapid succession and overwhelms its connection table. Lastly, there is ICMP flood, which involves sending large amounts of unsolicited ICMP packets that cant be answered without excessive resources being used for processing them all at once
