Grow Botnet Capacity
Attackers spread malicious software through emails, websites & social media to infect computers, IoT devices & smartphones to build networks known as 'botnets'. These infected devices can be controlled remotely, without their owners' knowledge, and used like an army to launch an attack against any target. Some botnet networks are millions of devices strong.
Botnet Black Market
There are online black marketplaces where people/organizations buy and sell botnets or individual DDoS attacks. Anyone can pay a nominal fee to silence any websites they like with or disrupt an organization’s online operations. A week-long DDoS attack, capable of taking a small organizations' website/web applications down can cost as low as $150 based on third party reports.
Launching DDos Attacks
Botnets can generate huge floods of traffic to overwhelm a target. These floods can be generated in multiple ways, such as sending more connection requests than a server can handle, or having the botnets to send the victim huge amounts of random data to use up the target’s bandwidth
Revenue Loss
Downtime of websites or epayment applications that handles monetary transactions will cause the business to loss revenue during that period of time
Productivity Loss
When critical business operation applications are down, your business productivity will also drop/stop
Damaged Reputation
Your brand gets impacted when your customers cannot access your website or applications to perform transactions
Theft
DDos attacks are becoming more advanced & can now include stealing of funds, customer data & company's confidential information
