In 2000, hackers broke into hundreds of servers and planted Trojan horse .exe programs, which were then used to launch a barrage of service requests in a concerted attack at e-commerce websites, such as Yahoo! and eBay. This is an example of a distributed ________________ attack.
A) acceptance of service
B) denial of service
C) zombie
D) Trojan virus

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The attack described in the scenario is an example of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, where hackers use multiple infected machines to flood a targeted website or service with traffic, causing it to become unavailable to legitimate users. The other choices are not accurate descriptions of the attack.

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