Question

A DoS attack coming from a large number of IP addresses, making it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources is known as a _____________

(a) GoS attack

(b) PDoS attack

(c) DoS attack

(d) DDoS attack

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Answer 1

The correct option is (d) DDoS attack

The best I can explain: A DoS attack coming from a large number of IP addresses, making it hard to manually filter or crash the traffic from such sources is known as a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack.