Article Name: General Analysis of the economy behind DDoS attacks.

Author: Ciprian Andrei TAIS*

Distribute denial of service.

This article talks about on how the DDoS are a bigger problem to all multi and international

companies. DDoS attacks first appeared in the new in February 2000 taking down the big

mayor web services like Amazon, Ebay, Yahoo; that was the start of the new era of DDoS

attacks.

Victims of these crippling and widespread Internet-based attacks includes Internet service

providers. Emerging technologies introduce additional vulnerabilities that put today´s

networks at even greater risk of security threats.

The primary aim in a DoS attack is to render the target system completely useless. This is

usually done using one of the two strategies. The first strategy is a flood attacks, involves

sending the target a lot of packages or request overloading the system and bringing them

down. The second strategy is a logic attack known as exploits software bugs on the target

system in an effort to take it offline.

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) estimates that computer crime costs

American companies $62 billion a year.

Most if this attacks are financed by the underground economy (black market) just to make

more money by taking down a web service.