A network technician is reviewing network logs and notices about 30,000 different hosts have been trying to hit the company employees' database server for the past week. However, none of the hosts are known to the network. Which of the following is MOST likely occurring within the network?
A) ARP poisoning
B) Brute forcing
C) SQL injection
D) Distributed DoS

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This scenario describes a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack, where a large number of unknown hosts are attempting to overwhelm the database server with traffic.

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