How do attackers launch DDoS?

First, hackers need to get the DDoSTool onto your system. To that end, cybercriminals rely on a whole bag of tricks to enslave your PC, Mac, Android, iPhone, or company endpoint into their botnet.

how does a ddos attack work?

Here are some common examples:

An email attachment. In a moment of bad judgment, you click on either an attachment or link to a website that the attacker controls, and which hosts the malware it sends you.
Your social network or messaging app. Like emails, they can include links that attackers want you to click on, again, to trigger download of a DDoSTool.

Drive-by downloads or click scams. If you surf on a legitimate—albeit infected—website, you don’t even have to click on anything to have the malvertising download botnet malware. Or you fall prey to a pop-up that displays an “urgent” message that prompts you to download some allegedly necessary antivirus security (it’s malware).

After the DDoSTool infection takes root, your computer remains seemingly unchanged, although there are some telltale signs. Your computer might have slowed down noticeably. You get random error messages, or your fan revs up mysteriously even when you’re in idle mode. Whether or not it shows these signs, the infected device periodically checks back in with the botnet command-and-control (C&C) server until the cybercriminal running the botnet issues the command for your device (along with all the other bots) to rise and attack a specific target.

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