What is a DDoS amplification attack?
A distributed denial of service or DDoS is one of the most dangerous cyber threats that online businesses face daily. The amplification can be explained with simple words: increase, intensification, magnification, etc. The dimension such type of attack can reach is scary, don’t you think so?
What is a DDoS amplification attack?
A DDoS amplification attack is a volumetric and reflection-based cyber attack. It occurs when perpetrators take advantage of the public recursive DNS servers to overwhelm a network, website, application, online service, or a server with an amplified traffic amount. This drives the victim to an inaccessible status (denial of service).