Government official: "DDoS attack does not affect the business a company makes"

A senior government official has claimed that distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks “do not lose companies any business”.

In a briefing on Friday, the official – who is associated with the UK cyber strategy, but refused to be named – claimed that a major trend the government had seen in the last 12 months was the number of distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks.