DDos Attacks- Affect During the Corona virus Pandemic

DDoS means Denial of service attacks which cause a machine or service to be inaccessible to a legitimate user. Every New Day you heard about the story of the DDoS attack and that affects the worldwide business and organization that are used by cybercriminals.

DDoS attacks are basically done for different purposes but the most used is the DDoS attack can cause a webpage to become unavailable when receiving thousands of traffic at a specific time.

When our team followed up the last security reports from different firms, news, and portal we came to the conclusion that DDoS attacks are being doubled during the pandemic time which makes records of attacks

These attacks are effectively done by the attacker using several things related to the COVID-19 or the pandemic.

The cyber attacker and the group of hackers know well and take advantage of coronavirus to evolve the efficiency of DDoS Attack.

What actually happens when you attacked by DDoS the consumption of resources in computers like bandwidth,memory Space, alteration of the configuration and data theft may harm the physical network components…etc

What is a DDoS attack?

A DDoS attack is an attack that can compromise the website, server, services, and infrastructure which has the main purpose to disable and make a site, server, etc by sending false and fake traffic that engages the website server and let them down for a while.

The result of such an attack is to serve the site and forcefully process the excessive amount of false requests and make the site inaccessible to the simple user.

Types of DDoS attacks?

There are three forms of the DDoS attack and here is the list below :

• Volume-Based Attacks: This attack uses high traffic to flood the network with bandwidth and make a site, server, service, or infrastructure unavailable.

• Application-Based Attacks:  This attack is considered as the most sophisticated and critical form of harm to the web application.
• Protocol-Based Attacks: An attack focuses on exploiting the resources to the server which makes users unavailable during attacks.

DDoS Attacks Rage during the Pandemic Period 

According to the reports, the more work from home culture generated the more DDoS attack Rise at peak. Everything was related to the COVID-19 and due to which the world faced quarantine living and the situation has changed in the work culture of all sectors. The average growth in DDoS attack is 25 percent in 2020 but it doesn’t affect everyone equally, as the attacks on the educational resources and official website of the towns and cities have increased threefold compared to the same period of the last year.

From the report of security companies, it was mentioned that the number of attacks campaigns are run to the school and cities company.

This was also said by the security personnel that the attacks have increased two times as compared to the quarter of previous years.

This all focuses on the single point that the Cyber attackers are always taking advantage of any situation. During the pandemic time, the most targeted ransomware attacks are on the health organization and according to the reports, the situation will get worse.

How do they do the DDoS attacks? 

There are two types of logically divided DDoS attacks: the first: Attack on the network layer and the second is the application layer part of the server.

When the attack happens on the network layer that means the server communication channels are flooded by the Cyber attacker. If the Communication channel is the one who is only responsible for the amount of the data that the server is able to receive.

When the Flow of data is in the form of traffic then the server is unable to respond and execute the data that made the site unavailable for the whole visitor.

In this scenario, the attackers are able to make the resources for the visitors and they can easily access them but during the attack, there are too many requests that the server got failure and stop responding that happens during the DDoS attacks. Even sometimes DDoS attacks can increase the utilization of Processor and RAM and that can freeze the response rate.

How to Prevent DDoS Attacks?

First, you get connected with the cyber experts and discuss the situation. If they recommend any tools to use then go for it and use it on the server. You can manage it also by

1. Time to time monitors your server bandwidth utilization
2. Check the risk factor
3. If any issues found get contact with the expert and use the recommendation.

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