DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service

A type of cyberattack in which criminals flood a website or online service with massive amounts of traffic, making the site unstable or unavailable to real users.

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Many DDoS attacks come from botnets, which are networks of infected devices controlled by attackers to flood a target.

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DDoS attacks are continuing to break records in both volume and scale, with ransom-driven attacks becoming more common. Some of the biggest websites in the world—including X (Twitter), Netflix, and Reddit—were knocked offline in a massive 2016 DDoS attack.

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DDoS - Distributed Denial of Service

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