What is in the future for DoS/DDoS attacks?
The existing denial of service programs will get more sophisticated, as attackers learn from the mistakes of others, and various discussion forums distill the information gained. Recently an email trojan went around, it was simply a VB Script program, and it spread like wildfire. In the future someone may write a relatively “stealthy” virus that installs attack software on the windows client and possibly tries to infect other hosts via email. This method could easily infect a huge number of hosts for a short amount of time, with a steady “decay” rate as people cleaned up their systems, however the window of oppurtunity would exist to flatten many sites (ironically enough if anti-virus vendors and popular forums for alerting users about these problems were attacked it could probably “survive” for a while). Unfortunately people do not seem to be learning from these widespread infections (Melissa, then ILOVEYOU several months later) More attacks at emerging services is a likely bet. We ha
