Definition

DDoS

initialism D-D-O-S

Distributed Denial of Service. A malicious attack that prevents users from communicating with the network by flooding the provider with requests in a way that block access to users.

In a sentence

A DDoS attack flooded the exchange with traffic and disrupted access for legitimate users.

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