Types of DDoS attacks
DDoS attacks are carried out in several ways. However, attackers select one of them based on different factors, such as target difficulty, financial capability, anonymity, priority, and other factors. It does not take much technical expertise to run the DDoS attack program and launch it. There are mainly three types of attack, categorized as follows:
- Attacks targeting network resources
- Attacks targeting server resources
- Attacks targeting application resources
Attacks targeting network resources
These are attack campaigns in which it is planned to consume the network resources of the target system. In this attack, network bandwidth gets completely consumed by flooding. The following are several types of flooding attacks.
User datagram protocol (UDP) flood
 UDP is a protocol embedded in the IP packet for socket-level communication between two devices. A UDP flood attack does not exploit any specific vulnerability of the target system, but rather it simply disrupts the normal...
