How does a deadly US attack works now as attacks are carried out with networks of Internet connected
machines?
These network consist of computers and other devices, such as Iot devices which have been infected
with a malware allowing them to be controlled remotely by an attacker.
And these individual devices are referred to as bots or zombies and a group of what is called a botnet.
Don't worry, we will talk about putting it in details.
Now, once a unit has been established, the attacker is able to direct an attack by sending remote
instructions to each bot.
So when a victim, server or network is targeted by the botnet, each book sends request to the target
IP addresses, potentially causing the server or network to become overwhelmed, resulting in denial
of service to normal traffic.
Because each what is legitimate internal device separating the attack, traffic from normal traffic
can be difficult.
Why is that?
Because these are normal devices and maybe they are normal users, by the way.
So how to distinguish between normal traffic and they do traffic?
It is very hard when actually there are a lot of ways, but.
It is not 100 percent accurate.
OK, we will see them in the next lecture's.