Jamie is head of security at his company and has gotten an alert from the monitoring system that the web servers are receiving a sudden spike in traffic from a number of foreign IP addresses. This is causing the website to run very slow or return errors to some users. Which of the following is most likely occurring?
A) DoS attack
B) Ping flood
C) DDoS attack
D) Smurf attack

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The scenario described is indicative of a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where multiple systems flood the bandwidth or resources of a targeted system, usually one or more web servers, causing a denial of service for users of the targeted system.

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