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A security team receives reports about high latency and complete network unavailability throughout most of the office building. Flow logs from the campus switches show high traffic on TCP 445. Which o

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Submitted by yuriko_h· Mar 6, 2026Threats, vulnerabilities, and mitigations

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A security team receives reports about high latency and complete network unavailability throughout most of the office building. Flow logs from the campus switches show high traffic on TCP 445. Which of the following is most likely the root cause of this incident?

Options

  • ABuffer overflow
  • BNTP amplification attack
  • CWorm
  • DDoS attack

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