Question

What are the types of DDoS attacks?

Answer 1

DDoS attacks are categorized into three types:

1. Volume-based Attacks:
   These are also known as Layer3 & 4 attacks. In this, the attacker tries to saturate the bandwidth of the target site.
2. Protocol Attacks:
   These attacks include actual server resources and others like load balancers and firewalls, and they are measured in Packets per Second.
3. Application Layer Attacks:
   It includes the zero-day DDoS attacks, Slowloris, etc., that attack the Windows, Apache, or OpenBSD vulnerabilities and more. This is measured in Requests per Second.