A synchronized surge of traffic from multiple sources intended to overwhelm a target is best described as what?

• A. Denial of Service Attack
• B. Distributed Denial of Service Attack
• C. Degraded Service Attack
• D. Digital Denial Attack

Answer: (B)

This describes a distributed denial-of-service attack: traffic from many sources is coordinated to overwhelm a target, so the service becomes unavailable. The critical detail is that multiple sources are involved, often from a botnet or compromised devices, which makes it harder to block by simply cutting off one sender. If the attack came from a single source, it would be a standard denial-of-service attack, but the synchronized, multi-source nature here defines the distributed form. The other terms don’t fit common security terminology for this scenario.