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Noun: Distributed Denial of Service
  1. A cyberattack in which multiple compromised computer systems attack a target, such as a server or website, causing overload and a denial of service for users
    "The company's website was taken offline by a massive Distributed Denial of Service attack";
    - DDoS

Encyclopedia: Distributed Denial of Service