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Submitted by minji_kr· Mar 5, 2026Communication and Network Security
Question
What type of attack sends Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) echo requests to the target machine with a larger payload than the target can handle?
Options
- AMan-in-the-Middle (MITM)
- BDenial of Service (DoS)
- CDomain Name Server (DNS) poisoning
- DBuffer overflow
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Topics
#Denial of Service#DoS attack#ICMP flood