Smith Industries provides a web store for their customers so that they can self$-$browse and order their various parts. Recently, they experienced an overwhelming load of traffic to their site that rendered it inoperable for a few days. During their investigation, a group of internet incident trackers tells Smith Industries that their site was the target of a group of infected computers that sent out millions of requests to cripple websites.

What type of attack uses a group of infected machines to attack one single target?

A

DDoS

B

On$-$path

C

DNS

D

Credential replay