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A website dedicated to leaking personal information about Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents was reportedly subject to a cyber attack that its founder believes may have originated in Russia.
Dominick Skinner, a Netherlands-based immigration activist, told The Daily Beast that his website, ICE List, came under cyberattack Tuesday evening after the publication reported Skinner planned to release personal information, obtained through a whistleblower, about thousands of employees.
The attack, known as a Direct Denial of Service, is when a perpetrator seeks to disrupt access to a network or service by flooding it with superfluous requests in an attempt to overload the system.
Skinner told The Daily Beast that a massive number of IPs began accessing the website and a large amount of the traffick appeared to come from Russia – leading the founder to speculate the attack originated there.
Never heard of a Directed Denial of Service.
That’s the literal definition of a Distributed Dienial of Service attack.
https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/what-is-a-ddos-attack/ https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/understanding-denial-service-attacks No one calls is a Directed Denial of Service.
There are things such as an amplified DOS attack or a reflective DOS attack, but these aren’t “Directed” DOS attacks.