I just imagined if someone take hands to remotely control antivirus server and sends malware via definitions update would be “fun”Īnyway hope protonmail will overcome this accident soon.įrom what I can read they’ve found a correlation but that does not equal a causation, it’s not the DDoS itself that infects targets, it’s more likely to be there to distract the target while the intrusion is taking place, giving them more time to complete their goals. Well, I of course agree with you Comodo itself would be the main target than its users, I’m just randomly reading websites and some says ddos also can be used for install malware and steal data, e.g. If you yourself were to be targeted by a DDoS attack then there’s nothing a local program on your computer can really do… I read that google could easily overcome such an attack, so I just got interested if the security suite I use can too…ĭDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) is not the same as hacking, DDoS is simply overflowing the target with bogus data so legitimate data doesn’t get through or gets slowed down significantly (might be a tad oversimplified) During a DDoS attack against Comodo servers then “Protecting their users” would be irrelevant since there’s nothing to protect them from, rather Comodo would be more interested in protecting themselves from going offline.Įdit: If Comodo were to be targeted by a DDoS attack then the worst case scenario for you as a user is no antivirus definition updates as well as no cloud lookup, that’s not as bad as it sounds since unknown malware would still be sandboxed (In the case of CIS and default settings) If servers get hacked can’t users got hacked too via their Comodo programs for example.

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