Combining Denial of Service with more Malicious Attack
So a common strategy is to create a “denial of service” diversion
- As NPAC has noted, you set up an agent which floods main enterprise Web Server with requests
- Web Server grinds to a halt and all system people go to look at it and bring it up
In the confusion, you mount a malicious attack -- perhaps on a different machine -- using well known bugs in UNIX ……..