Botnet-based Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on Web Servers: Classification and Art

TL;DR

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of botnet-based DDoS attacks on web servers, highlighting their increasing prevalence, impact on resources and revenue, and discussing current defense strategies and future research directions.

Contribution

It offers an in-depth study of application-layer DDoS attacks, emphasizing recent trends, real-world incidents, and the need for improved defense mechanisms.

Findings

Increase in application-layer DDoS attacks on web servers

Significant revenue losses for major organizations

Current solutions have limitations and require further research

Abstract

Botnets are prevailing mechanisms for the facilitation of the distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on computer networks or applications. Currently, Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer are latest and most problematic trends in network security threats. Botnet-based DDoS attacks on the application layer limits resources, curtails revenue, and yields customer dissatisfaction, among others. DDoS attacks are among the most difficult problems to resolve online, especially, when the target is the Web server. In this paper, we present a comprehensive study to show the danger of Botnet-based DDoS attacks on application layer, especially on the Web server and the increased incidents of such attacks that has evidently increased recently. Botnet-based DDoS attacks incidents and revenue losses of famous companies and government websites are also described. This provides better understanding of the problem, current solution space, and future research scope to defend against such attacks efficiently.