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DDoS Attacks: A Perfect Smoke Screen for APTs and Silent Data Breaches - CSO

September 30, 2015

DDoS Attacks: A Perfect Smoke Screen for APTs and Silent Data Breaches - CSO

CSO, September 29, 2015, By Ilia Kolochenko
This year many security companies, including Kaspersky Lab, have announced a significant increase of DDoS attacks, highlighting the growth of their diversity, complexity and quantity. The main objective of a DDoS attack is to harm a competitor or force a victim to pay the ransom, but a DdoS attack does not provide the needed amount of time for a long-term attack. This is why professional Black Hats tend to use DDoS attacks not as a main attack vector, but rather as a smoke screen to hide more serious data breaches. Kaspersky researchers continue to find a connection between DDoS attacks and Advanced Persistent Threats.

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DDoS Attacks: A Perfect Smoke Screen for APTs and Silent Data Breaches - CSO

DDoS Attacks: A Perfect Smoke Screen for APTs and Silent Data Breaches - CSO
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