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distributed denial of service

nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026

A Denial of Service technique that uses numerous hosts to perform the attack.

MWE

Classifications

Entity Type

Threat0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity

85%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class

90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants

acronym
DDoS
plural
distributed denial of services
possessive
distributed denial of service's
pluralpossessive
distributed denial of services'