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Defending Critical Information Infrastructure from Cyberattacks through the Use of Security Controls in Layers

“…Malware is also used to infect computers which take part in DDoS attacks [15]. This has occurred in the past with the Conficker worm which created a botnet of around six million zombies, used to launch DDoS attacks on organisations [16].…”

“…Distributed Denial of Service is an attack which uses a group of infected computers (also known as a botnet) to take down a website by flooding it with unnecessary traffic [15]. Many countries have been hit by DDoS attacks which have negatively affected their economy.…”

“…Cyberespionage. One area of cyberwarfare is cyberespionage which is the use of computers to steal confidential information from systems [15]. For instance, hackers may be employed by their government to steal classified information from other governments.…”

“…For example, the speed of a system could randomly slow down, delaying access to information. On the downside, some attackers are capable of altering virus signatures [15]. As a result, this will allow malware to avoid detection by antivirus software.…”