Welcome to the sixteenth edition of the Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report. DDoS attacks, or distributed denial-of-service attacks, are a type of cyber attack that aims to disrupt websites (and other types of Internet properties) to make them unavailable for legitimate users by overwhelming them with excessive traffic. Think of it as causing a traffic jam on a critical road, preventing people from reaching their destination.

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