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Maria works as a professional Ethical Hacker. She is assigned a project to test the security of that the firewall of the server is blocking the ICMP messages, but it is not checking the UDP packets. Therefore, she sends a large amount of UDP echo request traffic to the IP broadcast addresses. These UDP requests have a spoofed source address of the We-are-secure server. Which of the following DoS attacks is Maria using to accomplish her task?

Options

  • ASmurf DoS attack
  • BFraggle DoS attack
  • CPing flood attack
  • DTeardrop attack

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