Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have long been a major threat – primarily because attackers don’t need a vulnerability or access to an organization’s systems to overwhelm them with requests or traffic.
But even so, threat actors have refined nearly every aspect of their attack leading to a rapid evolution of the DDoS landscape in recent months. This includes focusing on high-value targets, evading common DDoS defenses, and upgrading botnet infrastructure to enable much larger attacks. Read theNET.