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Which of the following BEST describes a beaconing intrusion?

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A group communication protocol for an attacker to send commands to zombie systems.


A command issued to a botnet pool to verify that a bot is still alive.


Metadata that is used to embed control messages to bots.


Queries repeated multiple times as a bot checks in with the control server for new commands.

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Queries repeated multiple times as a bot checks in with the control server for new commands.

Beaconing is periodic, regular check‑in traffic from an infected host to its C2 server.