(D)DOS (Distributed) Denial Of Service Attack
A DDOS is when an IP Address or Website is sent thousands of individual pieces of data within moments of each other causing the website or IP Address to overload and crash.
DDOS happens daily and some cyber criminals will threaten companies/businesses with a DDOS attack and will refuse to let their site/network go back up onto the web unless they recieve a payment of however much they want e.g. if it's a small business they may only ask for £500 yet if they are targeting a much more widescale company they could ask for in excess of £10,000+. However not all cyber criminals will DDOS someone for monetary gain some do it just to get revenge for an incident that may have happened in the past with their intended target.
DDOS happens daily and some cyber criminals will threaten companies/businesses with a DDOS attack and will refuse to let their site/network go back up onto the web unless they recieve a payment of however much they want e.g. if it's a small business they may only ask for £500 yet if they are targeting a much more widescale company they could ask for in excess of £10,000+. However not all cyber criminals will DDOS someone for monetary gain some do it just to get revenge for an incident that may have happened in the past with their intended target.
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