Which attack requires a botnet?

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A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is one in which the attacker recruits hundreds or thousands of devices to assist in the attack. The helpers are called zombies, and as a group they are called a botnet.

A DDoS attack usually involves the hijacking of several computers and routers and routers to use as agents of the attack. Multiple servers and routers overwhelm the bandwidth of the attack victim. For example, if a server has intermittent connection issues, the logs will show repeated connection attempts from the same IP addresses, and the attempts are overloading the server to the point it cannot respond to traffic, then the server is experiencing a DDoS attack.

A man in the middle attack makes use a single attack machine. The intent is to position the attacker between two communicating devices such that they are sending to the attacker rather than sending to one another. Using a packet analyzer to gather packets from a network connection between two computers is a method that can be used to initiate a man in the middle (MITM) attack.

A DoS attack is one that is sourced from a single machine. A denial of service (DoS) attack occurs when attackers overrun a server with requests so that ligitimate users cannot access the server.

Password theft uses a single attack machine as well.

Objective: Attack methods
Sub-Objective: Describe these network attacks: Denial of service, Distributed denial of service, Man-in-the-middle.