You are troubleshooting a server outage for Crucial Technologies. During the troubleshooting process you discover that the server is being flooded with traffic from multiple different sources outside the network. What kind of attack is happening?
The answer is DDOS. The attack is a distributed denial of service attack. The attacker is using multiple distributed sources to attack the target making it more difficult to mitigate. DOS is a denial of service attack from one source instead of multiple. The other possible choices are not a type of denial of service
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