An employee receives an email from their internet service provider asking for their bank account number and password. Which cybersecurity threat is this?

Question

Options

• ARansomware
• BDistributed Denial of Service
• CSpamming
• DPhishing

• A
  3% (1)
• B
  3% (1)
• C
  8% (3)
• D
  86% (32)

Explanation

Phishing is a social engineering attack in which a malicious actor impersonates a trusted entity (here, an internet service provider) via email to trick the recipient into revealing sensitive information such as credentials or financial data. Ransomware is malware that encrypts a victim's files and demands payment for the decryption key - no impersonation email is involved. A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack floods a network or service with traffic to make it unavailable. Spamming refers to sending large volumes of unsolicited email, typically for advertising, not for credential theft. The combination of impersonation and a request for sensitive credentials is the defining characteristic of phishing.

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