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What are the types of DDoS attacks?

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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.

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