In our last blog, we discussed DDoS, detailing the chronology of the DDoS attack from an early attack used by hackers to gain notoriety and wreak havoc to a sophisticated cybercrime tool used for monetary gain. In this Part II, gathered from information provided by FortiGuard AV analyst Karine de Ponteves, we discuss the latest iteration of DDoS – specifically, how the attack is leveraged to disrupt government and corporate systems to make a political statement and mobilize users to action –…
