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GSLC · Question #184
GSLC Question #184: Real Exam Question with Answer & Explanation
The correct answer is C. Spoofing. Email spoofing involves forging the sender address on messages to make them appear to originate from a legitimate or trusted source.
Question
Your Company is receiving false and abusive e-mails from the e-mail address of your partner company. When you complain, the partner company tells you that they have never sent any such e-mails. Which of the following types of cyber crimes involves this form of network attack?
Options
- ACyber squatting
- BCyber Stalking
- CSpoofing
- DMan-in-the-middle attack
Explanation
Email spoofing involves forging the sender address on messages to make them appear to originate from a legitimate or trusted source.
Common mistakes.
- A. Cyber squatting is the bad-faith registration of domain names resembling trademarks or brand names to profit from them, which is unrelated to forging the sender address of an email message.
- B. Cyber stalking refers to the use of digital means to repeatedly harass or threaten a specific individual, which describes intent and behavior rather than the technical act of forging a sender identity.
- D. A man-in-the-middle attack involves an adversary secretly intercepting and potentially altering communications between two parties in real time, which is a different attack vector from simply forging an email's originating address.
Concept tested. Email spoofing and sender identity forgery
Reference. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/defender-office-365/anti-spoofing-protection
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