What is a cyber attack? If you perceive these attacks to be carried out by an individual hacker trying to work around your server, your top concern should be the ever-growing sophistication of hacking technology. You might be surprised to learn that hackers have dozens of tools at their disposal that can bring your website down in seconds. It’s frightening that cybercriminals use thousands to millions of infected devices and control them remotely to attack websites at a large scale.
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A botnet is a collection of internet-connected devices that are corrupted or hijacked to carry out malicious activities. Any device can become infected by visiting a malicious site, and it automatically downloads malware without you even noticing.
Hackers often send a large number of emails to target systems. These types of phishing schemes can sometimes be hard to detect, even with alerts and tech-savvy users. Unfortunately, once the malware is on the device, it can unpack a virus and take over the device.
Lately, rent-a-bot services, offering services at as low as $5 an hour, have provided hackers with a readily available army to bring down any website or application.
Cybercriminals create bot armies to launch DDoS attacks, spam campaigns, and other types of attacks that can be used to bring your website down and/or steal data. Surprisingly, these types of attacks are easy to carry out too, with botnet armies available on a rental basis. Full-service attacks are available for as little as $5 per hour, and the interested party can easily stretch their hour with a monthly plan that averages $38.
You can explore the ways to identify bots, here.
Keeping a business application up and running is critical to your brand’s reputation, and hackers want to target this weakness with DDoS attacks. The unpredictability of these attacks makes it difficult to prepare for them, which further incentivizes criminals to act. The following are some examples of bad bots disrupting major businesses in recent times.
With the rapid rise of the Internet of Things, botnets and zombie armies are only going to increase. Irrespective of your business size, it is imperative to adopt a technology that can distinguish between good and bad bots while stopping malicious threats.
Businesses simply cannot deploy a separate tool for each threat. Many CSOs have mentioned that over the last three years, their organizations have purchased too many tools and are now looking to consolidate these solutions. One VP of Security from a large software company mentioned that she has 87 people in her organization, yet they have 89 tools to manage. According to her, this was untenable. Here are some of the ways that you can manage bot menaces along with your existing application-layer threats.
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This post was last modified on January 2, 2024 11:54
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