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ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC) Practice Question

During incident response, an analyst suspects a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is in progress. Which single trait would best confirm that the event is a DDoS rather than a traditional single-source denial-of-service attack?

  • Traffic originates concurrently from a large number of geographically dispersed hosts under an attacker's control.

  • Domain Name System records are altered to redirect users to fraudulent websites.

  • The attacker encrypts the victim's data and demands payment to restore access.

  • The attack inserts malicious SQL commands into web application queries.

ISC2 Certified in Cybersecurity (CC)
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