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According to Fast Technology on August 25, the Steam platform suddenly crashed on the evening of the 24th. Players at home and abroad reported that they were unable to log in, and related topics quickly became hot searches.

Many players speculated that the Steam crash was caused by too many people online in Black Myth: Wukong.

However, according to the announcement released by the Perfect World Competition Platform,The Steam crash was caused by a DDoS attack.

It is understood that DDoS attack refers to Distributed Denial of Service attack.An attacker uses one or more computers in different locations to launch attacks on one or more targets at the same time, consuming the target server performance or network bandwidth.

A type of network attack that causes a server to run slowly or crash, making it unable to provide services normally.

For example, this attack is like a group of people coming to a restaurant but just occupying seats without ordering food, which prevents other customers who really want to eat from ordering food, and the restaurant loses customers and revenue.

It is reported that,There are many ways of DDoS attacks, including SYN flood attacks, UDP flood attacks, DNS flood attacks, DNS amplification attacks, etc.