100-160: CCST CybersecurityDemo

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QuestionQ16

Incident Handling

Customers of an online shopping store report that they cannot access the website. As an IT technician, you restart the site. After 30 minutes, the website crashes once more. You suspect the website has suffered a cyberattack.

Which type of cybersecurity threat should you investigate?

  • A Ransomware
  • B Social engineering
  • C Denial of service
  • D Spear phishing
Explanation

A denial-of-service attack overwhelms a website or its supporting resources with traffic or requests, causing legitimate customers to be unable to access it and potentially causing repeated crashes.

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