In which particularly devastating type of DoS attack are multiple unsuspecting computers used to attack multiple computer networks?
A)distributed
B)delayed
C)limited
D)staggered

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In a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, multiple computers (often with malware installed) are used without their owners' knowledge to launch an attack on a target network or resource. This can make the attack much more devastating than a single-source DoS attack, as the target receives many requests from many different sources simultaneously, overwhelming its capacity to respond.

In Which Particularly Devastating Type of DoS Attack Are Multiple