According to CyberEdge’s Cyber Defense Report, 86% of surveyed organizations have experienced a cyberattack. Cyber threats have always been a problem for many businesses. But do you really understand them? The following article will clarify the issues that many people are still mistaken about DDoS blackmail attacks. From there, helping businesses come up with the most effective DDoS prevention solutions.
Consequences of lack of DDoS protection measures
Since the first incident in 1989, ransom DDoS attacks have become more and more sophisticated over time. Without a clear understanding of their potential threats, you will face very serious consequences. Your website and network can be destroyed at any time. Employees cannot do their jobs. Thus, the process of providing products/services to customers will be interrupted. The company’s revenue will decline and the risk of losing brand reputation is very high. This is definitely something that no business wants.
Understand how to prevent Ransom DDoS based on 4 attack stages
Ransom DDoS (denial-of-service) attacks are different. However, they share the same basic approach model as follows:
- Contact via email, chat with a sales representative or send a message on social media
- Threaten the victim with a short attack. Prove they are familiar with the victim’s network infrastructure.
- Issue an ultimatum on the timing of ransom payments. That amount of time is just enough for the victim to pay the cryptocurrency. But not enough time to protect the infrastructure.
- Warn the victim that if payment is not made on time, the ransom will increase every day.
The techniques required to perform an RDoS attack are relatively low. Tools to spy on the victim’s network are available. Even the search engine is fully exploited by hackers. Hackers use them to gather information about the network scope and network services. Knowing these things, hackers will easily attack the victim’s system.
The RDoS attack starts with contacting the company’s director and key leadership. Business owners often ask: Should we wait and see if it’s a real threat? Should we call the authorities? Should we pay the ransom for them? What layer of the system have they infiltrated?
5 common myths about how to prevent DDoS attacks
DDoS or RDoS (Ransom DoS) attacks are both unpredictable threats. It is important that you recognize the common myths about them. From there, you can solve the problem and prevent DDoS attacks.
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“Pay the ransom and the hacker will disappear.” More than two-thirds of organizations were victims of ransomware and 57% paid the ransom. This not only hurts businesses, but also fuels more ransomware attacks, CyberEdge Group said.
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“My Internet Service Provider (ISP) will protect me.” The main focus of ISPs is to protect their services and other clients. Your business’s RDoS attacks are unlikely to be ISPs’ first priority. Therefore, they will not be able to provide effective DDoS attack prevention solutions.
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“Cloud Service Provider (CSP) or I can scale the infrastructure to handle the load.” Scaling infrastructure only helps DDoS prevention at the smallest scale. When hackers attack with a large amount of traffic, the price that businesses have to pay for this time is not small. Therefore, this way also cannot prevent DDoS in the future.
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“The On-Premise DDoS Prevention Solution Can Handle RDoS.” On-Premise DDoS protection solutions are limited by the capacity of ISPs, requiring manual management and upgrades. As a result, On-Premise DDoS attack defenses often fail to prevent sophisticated attacks.
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“The attackers don’t know my infrastructure.” This is a serious misconception of many people. Infrastructure information remains public at all times. Therefore, information about your infrastructure is no exception.
How much does a business lose without DDoS attack prevention solutions?
The answer is unlimited. To estimate the actual costs, you must estimate factors such as the impact on website traffic or the business’s support center. Cost of manpower to suspend work to focus on preventing attacks. And the worst case scenario is that the lost data cannot be recovered. These costs are many times greater than the ransom. So, don’t hesitate to equip your business with DDoS extortion protection right now.
The damage caused by Ransom DDoS attack is huge
3 strategies to prevent DDoS extortion
A robust and suitable Ransom DDoS prevention solution will:
- Full reporting of your data content. If an attack occurs, the enterprise’s technical department will detect it immediately. And they can adjust their DDoS prevention strategy as needed.
- Increased accuracy: a weak DDoS defense solution can block legitimate traffic. At this time, customers cannot access the business’s website. This inadvertently fulfills the purpose of a DDoS attack.
- Operate automatically and reduce errors from human factors. One thing is for sure, cybercriminals don’t wait until their employees’ working hours to attack. But attacks can happen at any time. Therefore, businesses need to have an automated protection solution 24/7.
Make a plan to prevent DDoS attack
You must assess and understand your own level of risk before being attacked. You must be able to estimate the cost of the loss if the company goes out of business because of an attack. You must understand the different security strategies. Develop DDoS prevention plans to respond when they occur.
Remember, the risk to attackers is extremely low. But the reward after the attack is very attractive. The ever-evolving IT system will promote RDoS attacks. So make sure your business can stop them before they happen.
VNIS – Comprehensive DDoS attack prevention solution
Understanding the worries of many businesses, VNETWORK has launched a website security solution with advanced technology. VNIS solution can prevent the biggest DDoS attacks, integrated with the following technologies:
- Multi CDN: combines many of the world’s leading CDN providers such as Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS… with more than 2,300 PoPs and 2,600 Tbps capacity from all CDN partners. Therefore, when any CDN provider has a problem, there will be another CDN to replace. In addition, Multi CDN also protects Layer 3/4 from DDoS attacks traffic up to Tbps.
- AI (artificial intelligence) load balancer combined with RUM system: helps monitor website performance in real time. Load balancing traffic when there is a sudden fluctuation in traffic.
- Cloud WAF Firewall: will filter all malicious requests and prevent Layer 7 DDoS attacks and protect websites from OWASP’s top 10 security vulnerabilities.
VNIS - Comprehensive website security solution