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8. Denial-of-Service via Task Flooding

8. Denial-of-Service via Task Flooding

Attackers exploit unbounded parallelism (e.g., 500+ concurrent subprocesses) to exhaust memory, CPU, or disk. Impact: System crash or degraded performance. Mitigation: 
  • Rate-limiting per user/IP
  • Use async queues and circuit breakers
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