Fundamentals of DDoS Attack: Evolution and Challenges
Brij Bhooshan Gupta, Amrita Dahiya · 2021
This chapter concentrates on comprehensive details of architecture, variants, evolution, and the challenges of Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. Further, it covers recent trends and statistics from reliable sources. The chapter provides the readers deep insights into the security threats corresponding to different variants of DDoS attacks. The established vulnerabilities and the existing botnets have continuously been explored and exploited by the attackers. The moment a new vulnerability is marked, attackers start working on launching a new series of DDoS attacks by exploiting it. Nowadays, organisations tend to focus on automation and virtualisation for the availability of their services. However, it is a matter of concern that security evolution could not have compatibility with technological transformation. Attacking techniques are going through a tremendous transformation from attack performed solely to target infrastructure, to hamper national security, and to create nuisance among people.