What is DDoS Attack?

The much-anticipated conversation between Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Republican US Presidential candidate Donald Trump on X (formerly known as Twitter) was derailed by a cyber attack. The platform faced a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack disrupting the interview.

What is DDoS attack?

• DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilizing multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic. Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources such as IoT devices.
• From a high level, a DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the highway, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination.

• Once a botnet has been established, the attacker is able to direct an attack by sending remote instructions to each bot.
• When a victim’s server or network is targeted by the botnet, each bot sends requests to the target’s IP address, potentially causing the server or network to become overwhelmed, resulting in a denial-of-service to normal traffic.
• Because each bot is a legitimate Internet device, separating the attack traffic from normal traffic can be difficult.