Denial-of-Service (DoS) attacks

It may seem strange to talk about observing cybercriminals at work, in order to beef up one’s own disaster recovery. DR planning and management in honest enterprises are often required as preparation and repair regarding malware attacks, illicit infiltration and control, data compromise, and other cyber nasties. Yet criminals, so it seems, are learning about disaster recovery tactics too, in order to build resilience into their attack infrastructure and resources. European and American police forces have been working to break criminals’ botnets, which are networks of machines such as PCs and servers belonging to others, but infected or controlled by attackers. The botnets may be used to spread malware infections or to perpetrate denial of service attacks on yet other machines. Police teams now see a trend among criminals to create several smaller botnets, rather than one bigger one. If one botnet is discovered and broken, the criminals can then Read more