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title: "What is a DDoS attack?"  
description: "What is a DDoS attack?"  
author: "Sandra Emily"  
published: 2022-05-05  
canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/97129/what-is-a-ddos-attack  
category: "troubleshooting"  
tags: ["troubleshooting", "networking", "network-security"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# What is a DDoS attack?

What is a [DDoS attack](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/158410/what-is-a-ddos-attack-and-how-to-mitigate-or-prevent-it)?

## Answers

### Answer by Hitesh Vohra

- A **distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) [attack](https://yourviews.mindstick.com/view/83165/a-tiny-miracle-child-mia-born-in-underground-metro-station-amid-missile-attack)** is a malicious attempt to disrupt a targeted server's, service's, or network's normal traffic by flooding the target or its surrounding infrastructure with Internet traffic.
- DDoS assaults are effective because they use numerous compromised computer systems as attack traffic sources. Computers and other networked resources, such as IoT devices, are examples of exploited machinery.
- A DDoS assault is analogous to an unanticipated traffic congestion obstructing the roadway, preventing ordinary traffic from reaching its destination.

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