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It is a prominent attack used by the attackers to cripple an online service. The method of implementation can either be from a single source or a list of common users (zombie army) who are modulated from the command centers. Hence, in the latter case, they are called denial‐of‐service attacks. A substantial amount of distributed users has malware software that turns all these systems into bots without...