DDos attacks: the real danger of the virtual world

If you consider the literal translation, then “Denial Of Service” means “denial of service”. DDos is a hacking attack that has to disrupt the entire system.
DDos is an ordinary hacking attack on a computer system to lead it to a complete rejection.
As for the technical question, the main purpose of the DDos attack is a paralyze, so to say, the "nextracking" of the web robots thanks to the full or partial display of the system. As a consequence, the web vozzle will be forced to spend its resources on the processing of “attacking” queries, through which the real users are affected, which will become impossible to serve. This can also lead to the collapse of the entire system.
DDoS attacks are locally and remote. Locals DDos - a variety of explosives, fork-bombs, and also programs that redirect a whole set of files or activate a special algorithm that "z'yadaje" memory and processor resources.