Hacktivists Use of DDoS Activity Causes Minor Impacts
Hacktivists provide tools and guidance on cyber attack methodology and techniques to anyone willing to conduct an attack on behalf of their cause.
TLP:CLEAR
SUMMARY
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is releasing this Private Industry Notification to highlight hacktivism activity and encourage organizations to implement the recommendations in the Mitigations section to reduce the likelihood and impact of distributed denial of service1 (DDoS) attacks.
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1 Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is an unsophisticated cyber-attack frequently carried out when a cyber- criminal actor sends multiple requests to the target website or server, overloading the server with traffic and temporarily disabling legitimate requests for access. Source: https://www.cisa.gov/uscert/ncas/tipsTLP:CLEAR