George, an ex-employee of Netabb Ltd. with bruised feelings due to his layoff, tries to take revenge against the company. He randomly tried several attacks against the organization. As some of the employees used weak passwords to their user accounts, George was successful in cracking the user accounts of several employees with the help of a common passwords file. What type of password cracking attack did George perform?

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George used a common passwords file, which is characteristic of a dictionary attack, where a list of potential passwords is used to attempt to gain unauthorized access.

George, an Ex-Employee of Netabb Ltd