Hackers using DDoS attacks as a ‘cyber smoke screen’ to mask wider threats

Hackers and cyber criminals have always used distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to target organisations across the world, but new research indicates that the attack method is quickly evolving as it becomes cheaper to create and deploy.

This is a definite risk for businesses and their security teams that are already required to fend off a rising number of cyber intrusions on their networks.

A DDoS attack typically attempts to overwhelm a server with web traffic and take the site offline, and has been used to target everything from the UK National Crime Agency to the Church of Scientology.

The software used in such an attack is now widely distributed via underground marketplaces on the so-called dark web, accessible only with the Tor browser and this has led to a notable spike in attacks, as a report from Kaspersky Lab noted. For the full article click here 

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