In a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack, an attacker will send thousands of fake requests in an attempt to exceed the bandwidth, flood a server's resources, and overload the system. By doing this, valid requests can only be processed very slowly or not at all. A massive amount of compromised computers (botnets) are often used to create a gigantic amount of data traffic.

A successful DDoS attack can cause significant downtime for web applications, websites, servers and IT infrastructure. A DDoS attack will not only seriously impact the victim. While a server is being attacked, it can also affect other servers, making them just as inaccessible during the attack and causing further collateral damage.

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