Survey found that DDoS event is often just one part of a wider attack.
Hackers and cyber criminals have always used distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to target organisations across the world, but new research indicates that the attack method is quickly evolving as it becomes cheaper to create and deploy.
This is a definite risk for businesses and their security teams that are already required to fend off a rising number of cyber intrusions on their networks.
A DDoS attack typically attempts to overwhelm a server with web traffic and take the site offline, and has been used to target everything from the UK National Crime Agency to the Church of Scientology.
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