Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks can be a major threat to the availability and security of networks. These attacks can overwhelm network resources and cause disruptions to legitimate traffic, leading to downtime and potential financial losses. As such,...
In the previous article, we described different DDoS attacks and their impact on network infrastructure. We focused on the BGP flowspec (BGP-FS) based DDoS mitigation techniques, highlighted its importance, and explained the role of scrubbing devices/services, which...
When it comes to distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, they are far from a downward trend. Although the popularity of certain types of DDoS attacks among cybercriminals varies over the quarters of 2022, the Cloudflare DDoS report for Q3 2022 clearly indicates...
In traditional methods for DDoS mitigation, such as RTBH (remotely triggered blackhole), a BGP route is injected, advertising the IP address of the server under attack with a special community (666). This special community on the border routers sets the next hop to a...
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is an attack in which the multiple compromised devices attack a target and cause the denial of service for users of the targeted device. During DDoS, a targeted system is flooded with incoming messages, connection requests...
