Report: DDoS attacks increasing year on year as cybercriminals demand extortionate payouts
10-Jan-22
According to Cloudflare, a new botnet known as the Meris botnet appeared in mid2021 and was the source of many highvolume applicationlayer DDoS attacks.
Applicationlayer DDoS attacks aim to disrupt the operation of a targeted organization’s web server by flooding it with bogus requests, causing it to slow down or (worst yet) crash.
