Which of the following scenarios best describes an attack that is likely to cause abnormal consumption of system resources, potentially leading to a system outage?
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DDoS attack
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Phishing attack that deceives a user into sharing their password
A Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack is a cyber-attack in which multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers, causing a drastic spike in resource consumption. This can overwhelm the system, leading to slowdowns or complete denial of service. In contrast, phishing and social engineering attacks primarily focus on deception to gain information, and they do not typically result in excessive resource consumption. Email spam may consume resources, but it is typically not as impactful as a coordinated DDoS attack that targets and exhausts system resources.
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