DDoS Cyber-Attack | 21 Feb 2025
Karnataka's Kaveri 2.0 portal that deals with property registration faced severe disruptions due to a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.
- This overloaded the system with fake accounts and automated requests, causing downtime.
- Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack:
- About: DDoS attack is a cyberattack that floods a website or network with malicious traffic making it inaccessible.
- DDoS attacks are large-scale versions of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that use multiple compromised systems (botnets) instead of a single source to overload the target.
- Types:
- Impact:
- DDoS attacks disrupt services, impact revenue, and expose cybersecurity vulnerabilities, damaging an organization's reputation.
- Mitigation Strategies
- Traffic filtering, rate limiting, bot detection (CAPTCHA, behavioral analysis), security audits, incident response plans, and multi-factor authentication enhance defense against DDoS attacks.
- About: DDoS attack is a cyberattack that floods a website or network with malicious traffic making it inaccessible.
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