DDoS attacks are very present in our day to day. They are one of the most important threats that can compromise the security of computer equipment and especially servers. Basically what they cause is a loss of services, such as the fall of a web page for example. In this article we explain why they are increasing at an alarming rate.
DDoS attacks grow alarmingly
What an attacker is looking for with this type of threat is to exceed the response capacity of a network’s resources. For example, it would be the infrastructure that allows a business website to be available. DDoS attacks send multiple requests at the same time so that they do not have the ability to respond and that website is down.
This is a very important problem, since it could cause substantial economic losses to a website that is without providing service for a certain time. Let’s take an online store as an example. If it is down for 5 hours, it would be 5 hours that it is not generating income. In addition to that it can cause a bad image in the face of users who come back in the future.
Now this type of attack is growing alarmingly. According to a report that we echo, it has grown by 287% mainly due to the rise of online gaming and casino websites, which have become a main objective.
This report has been produced by Nexusguard and includes the DDoS threats that have occurred in the last quarter compared to the same period of the previous year. They also indicate that gambling platforms are very sensitive to latency and packet loss, so they can suffer this type of attack and it is necessary to mitigate them correctly.
Everything related to the Covid-19 pandemic has also helped this huge increase in DDoS attacks, experts say. Spending more time at home and using more online entertainment services has helped this growth.
Cause bad service
In the case of online games, one of the attackers’ goals is to cause a malfunction. They seek to carry out DDoS attacks so that players suffer side effects on latency and the game does not perform as it should.
This logically gives a bad image of the platform . Users can choose other servers, other games in short. In this way, they could end the use of certain services.
At the end of the day, DDoS attacks basically consist of that, in carrying out a strategy to saturate the available resources and that these platforms give a bad service to users and even completely paralyze a website.
Denial of service attacks are nothing new. They have been attacking servers for a long time, however they have been perfecting said attacks to achieve their objective with greater guarantees. It is essential that web pages are properly secure and that there are no vulnerabilities that can be exploited. You can see a tutorial where we explain how to mitigate DDoS attacks on our servers.