A reflection DDoS attack is a technique used to carry out distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks in an amplified form. It works by sending malicious requests to vulnerable network services, causing these services to reflect the malicious requests back to the target of the attack, increasing the volume of traffic that the target has to deal
This is an overload of the server that hosts websites or services, causing access to be denied to anyone trying to access it at the time of the attack.
Malicious hackers use botnets to make the service crash or go down.
A DoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack basically makes numerous connections to the server, making the server overloaded. You can check with the command below which and how many IP addresses are connected to the server: netstat -ntu | awk ‘{print $5}’ | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq -c | sort -n If
