DDoS flood attacks on video conferences
While tools like Zoom, WebEx or Microsoft Teams have made business communication much easier during the pandemic, it also opens up a new gateway for cybercriminals for DDoS attacks, as flood attack protocols are used, according to Radware. Video conferencing systems work with the Real Time Protocol (RTP). RTP is based on the User Datagram Protocol (UDP), a protocol that offers neither guaranteed delivery of packets nor a mechanism for handling packets out of order. UDP is a connectionless protocol that uses datagrams embedded in IP packets to communicate without establishing a session between two…