Attack amplifier is often being HEAVILY relied upon on by which of the following types of attack?
A.
Packet dropping
B.
ToS
C.
DDoS
D.
ATP
E.
Wiretapping
F.
None of the choices.
Explanation:
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are common, where a large number of compromised
hosts are used to flood a target system with network requests. One technique to exhaust victim
resources is though the use of an attack amplifier – where the attacker takes advantage of poorly
designed protocols on 3rd party machines in order to instruct these hosts to launch the flood.