An attacker controlling bots in a coordinated attack against a victim is known as a ________.

• A. DoS attack
• B. DDoS attack
• C. ICMP
• D. None of the above

Answer: (B)

The main idea here is a distributed denial of service. When an attacker controls many compromised devices to flood a target, the attack is distributed across those machines, forming a botnet that coordinates the traffic. That coordination across multiple sources is what makes it a DDoS attack, as opposed to a single-source DoS attack, which would come from just one origin. ICMP refers to a protocol used for control messages and can be abused in floods, but it’s not the label for a coordinated multi-source assault. So the scenario fits as a DDoS attack, often powered by a botnet coordinating many bots to overwhelm the victim.