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DDoS attack
overwhelming a service with traffic to knock it offline
In more detail
1. (noun) a cyberattack in which hackers send massive amounts of traffic to a website or computer system to make it unable to serve legitimate users. DDoS stands for "Distributed Denial of Service". 2. (noun) the act of conducting such an attack
Examples
- 1. The online store's website went down during a DDoS attack that flooded their servers with fake requests.
- 2. Hackers launched a DDoS attack against the bank's network to disrupt their services.
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