To protect systems from being recruited into a botnet or suffering from an attack: What is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack?
: These bots typically perform flooding attacks, such as UDP floods or SYN floods, which aim to saturate the target's bandwidth until it becomes unavailable to legitimate users.
: For example, specific threats like the XorDdos payload or "getsetup.rar" have been observed as delivery mechanisms for Linux-based DDoS bots. Defense and Mitigation