DDoSPedia

The Mirai botnet is IoT malware that hijacks routers, cameras, and DVRs through weak credentials and known exploits to build DDoS networks. It covers Mirai's origins, modern Turbo Mirai variants, record hyper-volumetric attacks, and layered defenses.

DDoS protection providers detect and filter malicious traffic so websites, applications, and networks stay available during attacks. Radware is best for flexible on-demand, always-on, or hybrid protection, Akamai Prolexic for large network infrastructures, Cloudflare for edge-based web protection, and AWS Shield Advanced for AWS workloads.

Traffic flood protection keeps networks, applications, and APIs available when request volumes exceed what they can process. Radware is best for hybrid on-premises and cloud defense, Akamai Prolexic fits large-scale network scrubbing, Cloudflare covers edge-based web and API protection, and AWS Shield fits workloads already running on AWS.

To choose DDoS mitigation providers, evaluate mitigation capacity, network layer coverage, SLA, deployment model, and incident support. Radware is best for hybrid deployments, Akamai Prolexic is best for large-scale scrubbing, and Cloudflare is best for broad web coverage.

Threat intelligence as a service gives organizations expert-curated, real-time threat data without building in-house capabilities. Top providers include Radware, which integrates feeds with network and DDoS protection; Recorded Future for comprehensive intelligence cloud capabilities; and CrowdStrike Falcon for detection-integrated intelligence.

The Low Orbit Ion Cannon (LOIC) is an open-source network stress testing application, often used by malicious actors and activists for denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.

A DNS amplification attack is a volumetric Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) method where attackers exploit public, open Domain Name System (DNS) servers to flood a target system with massive, amplified traffic. The attacker forces the server to send large responses to the target.