Originally published on informationsecurity.report.
As part of our experts Comments Series, Dr Guy Bunker, CTO at Clearswift Cyber Security commented below on the subject of the recent use of DDOS attacks on the messaging app Telegram, which the founder of Telegram states was a concerted state-sponsored attack intended to disrupt the Cantonese anti-extradition protests. Dr Bunker discusses the ways in which the attack may have been carried out, as well as how firms can protect themselves from such attacks.
“DDoS attacks can be carried out in a number of different ways, and it has become increasingly simple to ‘hire’ a botnet to carry out the attack by multiple means which makes it more difficult to prevent.