Distributed DoS[edit]
See also: October 2016 Dyn cyberattack, IP address spoofing, and Hop (networking)
A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a cyber-attack where the perpetrator uses more than one, often thousands of, unique IP addresses. The scale of DDoS attacks has continued to rise over recent years, even reaching over 1Tbit/s.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denial-of-service_attack