Botnets are often used to perform distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, which bring web servers down by overloading them with traffic, but this new line of attack is different.

僵尸网络通常被用于进行分布式拒绝服务(Distributed Denial of service, DDoS)攻击，其可以通过使其流量过载的方式使网络服务器瘫痪；但这种新的攻击与之不同。

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To resolve the problem of detecting Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, a dynamic threshold detection method based on fuzzy logic was proposed.

针对分布式拒绝服务攻击的检测问题，提出基于模糊逻辑的动态的阈值检测方法。

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Since these operations are expensive to pull off, assets are not wasted on noisy DDoS attacks.

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All three have fallen victim to anonymous attacks from hacker group Operation:Payback in massive DDoS attacks.

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DDoS attacks involve flooding a website with more traffic than it can handle, therefore knocking it offline.

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