A large-scale DoS (Denial of Service) attack is a type of cyber-attack that allows a
person to make a service or network resource unavailable to intended users by
disrupting the services of a host connected to that network. Requests are sent to
overload the system and prevent or "deny" some or all requests to be fulfilled. "
One of the most recent DDoS attacks occurred in February 2020. It was known as
The AWS DDoS attack according to" . The attacker scanned and www.cloudbric.com
found a "large number of vulnerable third-party CLDAP servers, giving them the
capability to respond to requests with an amplification factor of 56x to 70x of the
original CLDAP requests." (1).
