How to Use DDoS in a Sentence

DDoS

abbreviation or noun
  • Large DDoS attacks usually rely on large armies of hacked devices from around the world.
    — Rob Wile, NBC News, 2025-03-10
  • Up to now, most of Anonymous’ DDoS attacks have been symbolic.
    — Yochai Benkler, Foreign Affairs, 2012-04-04
  • To minimize the threat of DDoS attacks, choose a cloud service provider that protects against this type of attack.
    — Kristen Lynch, The Arizona Republic, 2023-08-08
  • If a DDoS attack can slow down the competitor, the attacker gains a critical edge.
    — Carlos Morales, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
  • It’s considered one of the most powerful DDoS botnets ever.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 20 Aug. 2025
  • While no DDoS attacks have been noted at this time, the reality remains: this cannot and should not be happening in the first place.
    — Shankar Somasundaram, Forbes, 2024-11-28
  • Trumpists and right-wingers responded with a sustained DDoS attack on the truth until, one by one, platforms got tired of fighting it.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 2023-06-07
  • Your server is safe, too – all their service tiers come with DDoS attack shielding and advanced server protection services.
    — Pcmag Brandx and Liquid Web, PC Magazine, 2025-04-28
  • On the bright side, Microsoft managed to block around 1.25 million DDoS attacks, which is four times more than last year.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 2024-10-20
  • Initially reticent to name the cause, Microsoft has now disclosed that DDoS attacks by the murky upstart were indeed to blame.
    — Frank Bajak, ajc, 2023-06-18
  • Minecraft server administrators often hire DDoS services to knock rivals offline.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 2023-05-23
  • Most types of malware want to use your computer's resources, whether for mining bitcoins, launching DDoS attacks, or stealing your personal data.
    — PCMAG, 2024-06-14
  • The note states DDoS can cause thousands of connection requests and packets to be sent to the target or website per minute, slowing down or stopping vulnerable systems.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 2023-01-30
  • And so far, the disruption resembles the DDoS attacks politically motivated hackers have been launching for decades.
    — Sam Sabin, Axios, 2025-03-11
  • Distributed denial-of-service, or DDoS, attacks have been an increasing problem around the world, targeting government, education and private-sector websites and equipment.
    — courant.com, 2022-03-29
  • Ideologically and financially motivated actors, on the other hand, generally aim to cause disruption with hacks like ransomware or DDoS attacks.
    — Lily Hay Newman, WIRED, 2024-10-28

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