Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?

one of the attendees starts to notice delays in the connection. and the HTTPS site requests are reverting to HTTP.

Which of the following BEST describes what is happening?
A . Birthday collision on the certificate key
B. DNS hacking to reroute traffic
C. Brute force to the access point
D. A SSL/TLS downgrade

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Answer: D

Explanation:

The scenario describes a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack where the attacker intercepts traffic and downgrades the secure SSL/TLS connection to an insecure HTTP connection. This type of attack is commonly known as SSL/TLS downgrade attack or a stripping attack. The attacker is able to see and modify the communication between the client and server.