A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack happens when a malicious group in possession of a large botnet starts sending an never-ending stream of connection requests and other types of traffic in order to overwhelm your web server, ecommerce operations, or other web connect assest. Often the motive for these attacks are to extort money from the targeted victim, but sometimes these attacks may be social or politically motivated as well.
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