In today’s cybersecurity landscape, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks continue to pose significant risks to organizations and businesses. One particularly stealthy and difficult-to-detect attack type is the R.U.D.Y. (R-U-Dead-Yet) attack. Unlike traditional DDoS attacks that overwhelm servers with traffic, R.U.D.Y. attacks focus on slowly consuming server resources, making them a unique and dangerous threat.
In this blog post, we will explore how R.U.D.Y. attacks work, their impact, and how you can defend your infrastructure from this type of cyberattack.
What is a R.U.D.Y. Attack?
R.U.D.Y. is a low-and-slow type of attack that targets web applications by exploiting HTTP POST requests. Instead of sending a large volume of traffic to a server like traditional DDoS attacks, R.U.D.Y. takes advantage of the way web servers handle HTTP POST requests by sending data in small, incomplete packets over a long period.
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