Recent wave of attacks attributed to hacker group Izz ad-Din al-Qassam used an increasingly popular tactic: turning a compromised Web server into a weapon. Web servers have become the weapon of choice for DDoS attacks, says Marc Gaffan, co-founder and vice president of new business and marketing at Incapsula. This is more common in the hosting provider space than the enterprise space, says Stephen Gates, security evangelist at Corero Network Security. On the horizon are potential attacks that use mobile devices, though this approach has its limitations.”]
Source: https://www.darkreading.com/attacks-breaches/bank-ddos-attacks-employ-web-servers-as-weapons