A distributed denial-of-service attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the normal traffic of a targeted system by overwhelming the with a flood of Internet traffic., DDoS attacks achieve effectiveness by utilising multiple compromised computer systems as sources of attack traffic., Exploited machines can include computers and other networked resources such as IoT devices., A DDoS attack is like an unexpected traffic jam clogging up the road, preventing regular traffic from arriving at its destination., Individual infected devices are referred to as bots, and a group of bots is called a botnet.

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