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.