What type of attack is a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack?

The correct answer is A. An attack involving numerous unsuspecting secondary victim systems. A DDoS attack uses a botnet - a large number of compromised machines (secondary victims) that are often unaware they are being used - to flood a target with traffic, exhausting its resources and denying service to legitimate users. This distinguishes it from a simple DoS…

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AAn attack involving numerous unsuspecting secondary victim systems
BAn attack that attempts to misdirect legitimate users to malicious websites through the abuse of
CAn attack that seeks to deny service to legitimate HTTP requests
DAn attack that attempts to gain access to a target system through the use of a falsified identity

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(64 responses)

A
89% (57)
B
3% (2)
C
2% (1)
D
6% (4)

Explanation

A DDoS attack uses a botnet - a large number of compromised machines (secondary victims) that are often unaware they are being used - to flood a target with traffic, exhausting its resources and denying service to legitimate users. This distinguishes it from a simple DoS attack, which originates from a single source. Option B describes DNS poisoning/pharming; option C describes a basic DoS/HTTP flood; option D describes identity spoofing or social engineering.

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