Which of the following attacks is MOST likely occurring?

Employees are having issues accessing the company’s website. Some employees report very slow performance, while others cannot the website at all. The web and security administrators search the logs and find millions of half-open connections to port 443 on the web server. Further analysis reveals thousands of different source IPs initiating this traffic.

Which of the following attacks is MOST likely occurring?
A . DDoS
B . Man-in-the-middle
C . MAC flooding
D . Domain hijacking

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Answer: A