I want to share what I know about DDoS — what kind of attacks they are, what they are, how to prevent them and minimize the impact of such attacks on your service.
When the Internet appeared, there were no questions about anonymity. Then everyone who was online turned into a virtual character, who had almost nothing to do with the real person sitting at the computer. To ensure complete anonymity on the web, it was enough just to use aliases instead of real data. That's what everyone did.
OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) – collection and analysis of information from publicly available sources. In the current reality, we are talking mainly about Internet sources. From Russian-speaking experts, you can hear the term "Internet intelligence", which is equivalent to OSINT in meaning.
Witchcraft Online is a social engineering tool with sub-functions that aim to meet people's social needs, such as social media services and short message services. Launched attacks are always associated with spam (resending messages), spoofing and brute force engineering, since dos or denial of service subfunctions are nothing more than just attracting interested users.
Currently, software protection methods based on the use of cryptographic algorithms are widely used. Regarding the effectiveness of protection of this class, I would like to cite the opinion of Chris Kaspersky, author of the book "The Technique and philosophy of hacker attacks": "These defenses look unbreakable. They "look" because developers do not take into account the
A distributed DDoS attack is carried out simultaneously from a large number of devices - attackers gain control over them and generate streams of garbage requests on command. Such an attack can cause a denial of service to the systems of a large company or network.