ddos amplification

Credit to Author: Microsoft 365 Defender Threat Intelligence Team| Date: Mon, 23 May 2022 18:00:00 +0000

Amplification attacks are one of the most common distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack vectors. These attacks are typically categorized as flooding or volumetric attacks, where the attacker succeeds in generating more traffic than the target can process, resulting in exhausting its resources due to the amount of traffic it receives.

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