![]() Application‑Layer DDoS Attack CharacteristicsĪpplication‑layer (Layer 7/HTTP) DDoS attacks are carried out by software programs ( bots) that can be tailored to best exploit the vulnerabilities of specific systems. Typically, the attacker tries to saturate a system with so many connections and requests that it is no longer able to accept new traffic, or becomes so slow that it is effectively unusable. ![]() A Distributed Denial‑of‑Service (DDoS) attack is an attempt to make a service, usually a website, unavailable by bombarding it with so much traffic from multiple machines that the server providing the service is no longer able to function correctly because of resource exhaustion.
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