An attacker has gained access to a victim's network but is unable to advance the attack due to an IDS that looks at the hard$-$coded addresses attached to the network interface cards $($NIC$).$ The attacker uses software to impersonate the hard$-$coded address of a legitimate workstation to avoid detection and advance the attack.

Which of the following has occurred in this scenario?

A

MAC cloning

B

Evil twin

C

Privilege escalation

D

DNS poisoning