A Security Analyst Received a SIEM Alert Regarding High Levels

question 84

Multiple Choice

A security analyst received a SIEM alert regarding high levels of memory consumption for a critical system. After several attempts to remediate the issue, the system went down. A root cause analysis revealed a bad actor forced the application to not reclaim memory. This caused the system to be depleted of resources. Which of the following BEST describes this attack?

• A) Injection attack
• B) Memory corruption
• C) Denial of service
• D) Array attack

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