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Nope, it's a DDoS:

"A DoS attack is a denial of service attack where a computer is used to flood a server with TCP and UDP packets. A DDoS attack is where multiple systems target a single system with a DoS attack. The targeted network is then bombarded with packets from multiple locations."

Multiple apps engaged to notify 1 human, multiple systems attack -> single system.... DDoS.



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