Computer Science · Network Security
A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack targets network resources. How does it primarily operate compared to a standard computer virus?
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- 1It encrypts user files and demands a ransom payment for the key
- 2It infects only a single isolated computer and deletes the boot sector
- 3It spreads exclusively through email attachments to steal user credentials
- 4It floods a target with traffic from multiple distributed sources to exhaust its resources, rather than replicating itself to corrupt individual files✓
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It floods a target with traffic from multiple distributed sources to exhaust its resources, rather than replicating itself to corrupt individual files
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