A Subtle Form of Siege: DDoS Smokescreens as a Cover for Quiet Data Breaches

DDoS attacks have long been dismissed as blunt instruments, favored by script kiddies and hacktivists for their ability to overwhelm and disrupt. But in today’s fragmented, hybrid-cloud environments, they’ve evolved into something far more cunning: a smokescreen. What looks like digital vandalism may actually be a coordinated diversion, engineered to distract defenders from deeper breaches in progress. This isn’t speculation. It’s an emerging pattern: DDoS were the most reported attack forms last year, and in many incidents these attacks involved multiple cyberattack categories at once…

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