Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are one of the most prevalent types of cyber-attack on the Internet. While once the sole preserve of bad hackers coding in their bedrooms looking to cause mischief, DDoS-for-hire botnets now allow just about anyone to launch a crippling attack for just a few dollars - with no coding skills required. Since they first emerged in the early 2000s, we've seen attacks evolve from rudimentary volumetric attacks designed to knock sites offline, into far more complex and malicious threats, where the attacks are more sophisticated, deceptive and frequent. In many cases these attacks are merely a smokescreen, designed not to deny service but to distract from the real motive - usually data theft and network infiltration.
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