Question
A company runs a discussion forum that caters to global users. The company's monitoring system reports that the home page suddenly is seeing elevated response times, even though internal monitoring has reported no issues or changes. Which of the following is the most likely cause of this issue?
- A. Cryptojacking
- B. Human error
- C. DDoS Correct
- D. Phishing
Explanation
A distributed denial-of-service attack floods the public-facing site with traffic from many sources, so external response times rise suddenly while internal systems show no change or fault. Cryptojacking would show up internally as unexplained CPU use, human error would appear as a change, and phishing targets users' credentials rather than the site's response times.
