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What is a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) Attack?

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is one in which the threat actor disrupts the normal traffic of a server, service or network by flooding it with increased traffic from multiple sources to crash or stall it. The goal of the threat actor is to disrupt normal business operations for malicious purposes.

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