how to lauch DDos attack
How do attackers launch DDoS?
First, hackers need to get the DDoSTool onto your system. To that end, cybercriminals rely on a whole bag of tricks to enslave your PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, or company endpoint into their botnet. Here are some common examples:
•An email attachment. In a moment of bad judgment, you click on either an attachment or link to a website that the attacker controls, and which hosts the malware it sends you.
•Your social network or messaging app. Like emails, they can include links that attackers want you to click on, again, to trigger download of a DDoSTool.
•Drive-by downloads or click scams. If you surf on a legitimate—albeit infected—website, you don’t even have to click on anything to have the malvertising download botnet malware. Or you fall prey to a pop-up that displays an “urgent” message that prompts you to download some allegedly necessary antivirus security (it’s malware).
After the DDoSTool infection takes root, your computer remains seemingly unchanged, although there are some telltale signs. Your computer might have slowed down noticeably. You get random error messages, or your fan revs up mysteriously even when you’re in idle mode. Whether or not it shows these signs, the infected device periodically checks back in with the botnet command-and-control (C&C) server until the cybercriminal running the botnet issues the command for your device (along with all the other bots) to rise and attack a specific target.
Can DDoS attacks occur on Androids?
Since smartphones are basically portable handheld computers, coupled with the fact that there are around two billion of them in use, they provide a rich attack vector for DDoS on the go. They have the processing power, the memory and storage capacity that make them an attractive target for hackers, especially because phone users rarely secure their devices with anti-malware protection. And like PC users, smartphone users are just as susceptible to email and SMS phishing.
As for infection vectors specific to smartphones, supposedly legitimate apps found in the download marketplace are a frequent hunting ground for DDoS attackers, who have secretly loaded the apps with a malicious DDoSTool. In fact, that’s just how a massive Android-device DDoS attack came to light in August 2018 when a botnet dubbed WireX struck targets in a variety of industries including hospitality, gambling, and domain name registrars. It turned out that up to 300 malicious Android apps penetrated Google Play (which the company scrubbed after being informed of the threat), co-opting devices into a botnet across more than 100 countries.
How do DDoS attacks affect businesses?
Obviously, a company or retail commercial website has to take DDoS threats seriously. And there have been some huge ones in 2018.
As Malwarebytes expert Pieter Arntz writes, “Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS attack can be anything from a small nuisance to something that can break your revenue stream and damage it permanently. A DDoS attack can cripple some online businesses for a period of time long enough to set them back considerably, or even put them out of business completely for the length of the attack and some period afterwards. Depending on the kind of attack, there can also be—intentional or not—side effects that can further hurt your business.”
Side effects of a DDoS include:
•Disappointed users who may never return
•Data loss
•Loss of revenue
•Compensation of damages
•Lost work hours/productivity
•Damage to the business’s reputation
“Depending on the type and size of your organization, a DDoS attack can be anything from a small nuisance
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