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The malicious activity that has been selected is the denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. A
DoS attack refers to the type of attack that is launched in order to make the resources of
the systems and networks unavailable to legitimate users. It brings the organizations to a
grinding halt (Tripathi & Mehtre, 2013).
A present-day example of malicious activity is the large-scale DDoS attack on AWS in
February 2020. It targeted an unknown user with the use of a technique known as
Connectionless Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (CLDAP) reflection. The attack
lasted for about three days (Five most famous ddos attacks and then some. A10
Networks, 2021). The disruptions caused due to the malicious activity were less.
However, the scale of the attack was large. It affected the trust of the customers and
