DDoS-for-hire boom blamed for attacks on SA’s ISPs
The goal of a DDoS attack is to flood a website, server, or online service with massive amounts of traffic. (Image source: 123RF) South African cyber security experts are raising concerns over the increasingly low ransom demands being issued by cyber extortionists targeting local internet service providers (ISPs) with distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The experts…