{"id":12254,"date":"2024-08-13T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T00:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12254"},"modified":"2025-03-30T08:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T02:47:20","slug":"what-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-distributed-denial-of-service-ddos-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A DDoS attack is a <strong>malicious attempt<\/strong> to <strong>disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server<\/strong>, service, or network <strong>by overwhelming the target<\/strong> or its surrounding infrastructure <strong>with a flood of Internet traffic.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is a <strong>cyber crime to prevent users from accessing<\/strong> connected online <strong>services and sites.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by <strong>utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack<\/strong> traffic.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources, such as IoT devices.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike other kinds of cyberattacks, DDoS assaults <strong>don\u2019t attempt to breach your security perimeter<\/strong>. Rather, a DDoS attack <strong>aims to make<\/strong> your <strong>website and servers unavailable to legitimate users.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>DDoS can <strong>also be used as a smoke screen for<\/strong> other <strong>malicious activities<\/strong> and to take down security appliances, breaching the target\u2019s security perimeter.<\/li>\n<li><strong>How does a DDoS attack work?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>DDoS attacks are <strong>carried out with networks of Internet-connected machines<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>These networks <strong>consist of computers and other<\/strong> devices (such as <strong>IoT devices)<\/strong> which have been <strong>infected with malware<\/strong>, allowing them to be <strong>controlled remotely by an attacker.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These individual devices are <strong>referred to as bots<\/strong> (or zombies), and <strong>a group of bots<\/strong> is called a <strong>botnet<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Once a botnet has been <strong>established<\/strong>, the <strong>attacker<\/strong> is able to direct an attack by<strong> sending remote instructions to each bot.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>When a <strong>victim\u2019s server<\/strong> or network is <strong>targeted by the botnet, each bot sends requests to the target\u2019s IP address<\/strong>, potentially <strong>causing the server <\/strong>or network to <strong>become overwhelmed<\/strong>, resulting in a denial of service to normal traffic.<\/li>\n<li>Because each bot is a legitimate Internet device, separating the attack traffic from normal traffic can be difficult.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1<\/strong>: What is Malware?<\/h3>\n<p>Malware, or malicious software, is any program or file that is intentionally harmful to a computer, network or server. Types of malware include computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware and spyware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/world-news\/what-is-ddos-attack-flagged-by-elon-musk-that-hit-donald-trump-interview-6324982\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>What Is &#8220;DDOS Attack&#8221; Flagged By Elon Musk That Hit Donald Trump Interview?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted server, service, or network by overwhelming the target or its surrounding infrastructure with a flood of Internet traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12255,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}