The Hacker News: The Distributed Denial of Service attack has become more sophisticated and complex and therefore has become one of the favorite weapon for the cyber criminals to temporarily suspend the services of any host connected to the Internet and till now nearly every big site had been a victim of this attack, from WordPress to online game websites.
According to the new report released by a US based security solutions provider Incapsula, DDOS activities have become threefold since the start of the year 2013, pointing the key source of trash traffic to be the remotely controlled “zombie army” that can be used to flood various websites by DDoS attacks and other malicious activities.