Report: Cryptocurrency Exchanges Most Common DDoS Victims Worldwide
(WorldNews China)

The risks of operating digital currency sites and Bitcoin exchanges were revealed in a new report which says the most common targets of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are these sites, Cointelegraph reported Tuesday. Three out of four Bitcoin sites were victims of DDoS attacks in the third quarter of 2017 alone, Impervia Incapsula said in a report titled `Q3 2017 Global DDoS Threat Landscape.` A DDoS attack happens when multiple users flood the bandwidth or resource of a targeted system with traffic, thus disallowing legitimate parties to access the site or service, the Cointelegraph report said. The report describes seeing `attacks targeting a relatively high number of...