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The website of a Chennai online ticketing company becomes unreachable on a sale day because thousands of compromised devices spread across many locations send simultaneous requests to its server. Which description best fits this attack?

This is a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Many compromised devices, usually a botnet, flood the server with simultaneous requests until legitimate users cannot reach the site. It attacks availability, not data confidentiality, which distinguishes it from ransomware or password guessing.

  1. ARansomware attack encrypting the server data
  2. BDistributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attackCorrect
  3. CCross-site scripting attack
  4. DBrute-force password attack

Explanation

Many compromised devices (a botnet) flooding one server with requests to exhaust its resources is a DDoS attack, which targets availability. Ransomware would encrypt data and demand payment, which is not described. No data encryption or credential guessing is involved.

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