<ul><li>DDoS attacks aim to disrupt online services by overwhelming them with massive traffic from compromised devices.</li><li>Types of DDoS attacks include volumetric, protocol, and application layer attacks, with application layer attacks being the hardest to detect.</li><li>The impact of DDoS attacks includes service downtime, increased infrastructure costs, reputation damage, and heightened security risks.</li><li>Defenses against DDoS attacks include CDNs, rate limiting, traffic filtering, WAFs, behavioral analysis, and challenges like CAPTCHA.</li></ul>

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