A distributed denial of service (DDoS) is an attack that attempts to interrupt the regular traffic of a target server, service, or network. It overwhelms the target's infrastructure or causes a flood of Internet traffic.
This kind of attack happens from more than one source or location. Even the DDoS attackers are mostly unaware of their participation in the DoS attack. Infact, they are tricked by a third party into joining the attack. The attack generation in this type of attack is distributed among multiple computers.
