An unknown individual launches a series of attacks against t

An unknown individual launches a series of attacks against the Web sites of Prime Sales Corporation. The attacks significantly slow the sites, leading to $100 million in damage in terms of lost work time, lost revenue, site repair costs, and other expenses. The attacker does not intend to profit from the onslaught and in fact does not realize any financial benefit from the effects. How is this attack most likely orchestrated? Who is most likely to engage in this act—that is, whose habits and limitations are clearly suited to such conduct—and why?

Solution

The hackers and the crackers are the one who use malacious code to attack most of the company website. They use their computer to create bot and transmit to another computer. This bot furthur goes to different computer and creates a chain of network called botnet. The hacker also produce virus and worms to transmit into other computer which crashes the operating system and retrieve valuable information. Most of the hacker harm computer for both individual benefit and just to cause havoc to the corporations websites.