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0Ashley's organization has recently come under attack and has suffered a DNS outage. As she investigated, she found that requests to her DNS servers were sent to open DNS resolvers using spoofed IP addresses with requests that would result in very large responses from the DNS resolvers to the IP addresses that appeared to be making the request. What type of attack targeted Ashley's organization?
Answer Options
A
A reflected DDoS
B
A DNS flood
C
A mirrored DDoS
D
A supersized query attack
Correct Answer: A
Explanation
Ashley's organization was the target of a reflected (and amplified) DDoS where attackers took advantage of DNS queries to make small amounts of spoofed traffic into very large amounts of data sent to her servers. DNS floods, mirrored DDoSs, and supersized query attacks were made up for this question.