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DDoS means "Distributed Denial of Service", that is, several computers previously infected by hackers are fired remotely against a target determined by the cybercriminal, and from there they start to generate thousands or millions of requests until the service or website goes offline or suffers intermittencies due to overload or over-traffic.

These attacks force victims to restart their systems, suspend services temporarily, or obstruct communication between users and the victim.

The computers infected and used by the attacker for these attacks are known as zombies. These hundreds or thousands of machines are usually invaded by hackers and left on standby, awaiting commands. The original users of these computers generally don’t know that they are being used by cybercriminals.

Once the victim has been chosen by the hacker and the command is fired, the zombies attack the target server.

Zombies are instructed by commands to access resources repeatedly against the target simultaneously. At any given time, all zombies will make the same request in the same second, creating an overload on the victim.

Some attacks, depending on the request made, can cause the attacked server to reboot, becoming unavailable, or even generate bugs in certain features and services.

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