What term best describes an attack that overburdens network systems with an overwhelming amount of traffic, leading to reduced availability or performance for legitimate service requests?
A 'resource exhaustion' attack aims to consume network or system resources to the point where services become slow or completely unresponsive to legitimate users. The term implies the attacker's goal of using up all available resources, thus 'exhausting' them, which can degrade service performance or lead to a denial of service.
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