Security News > 2021 > September > DDoS Attacks: A Flourishing Business for Cybercrooks – Podcast

Keeping availability away from customers via DDoS can have a painful impact on businesses as they find their doors blocked to customers, keeping them from making transactions.

Over the years, DDoS attacks have evolved regarding level of sophistication, metrics and the techniques that threat actors employ.

"According to Peter Klimek, director of technology in the office of the CTO at Imperva, DDoS attacks have blossomed into what he calls a huge business for cybercriminals."Looking at it from a business perspective, that's really the big impact and are why businesses should start considering DDoSes as "a consistent and persistent threat."

"As a whole, there's really a low barrier to entry in order to actually perform the [DDoS] attack itself," he said.

Take the services known as booters, aka stressors: "They can be had and used for as little as the price of a cup of coffee," Klimek observed, and "Even a small scale DDoS attack can cause disruption."

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