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A bank's customer receives an email that imitates the bank's login page and asks for the internet banking password. The customer enters it and money is withdrawn. In cyber crime classification, this act is best described as:

The act is phishing. A spoofed email and fake login page imitating the bank tricked the customer into revealing credentials, which were then used for fraud. It is not a denial-of-service attack, because no server was flooded or made unavailable.

  1. APhishing, a form of online identity-based fraudCorrect
  2. BDenial-of-service attack on the bank's server
  3. CCyber terrorism through a logic bomb
  4. DSalami attack on the bank's ledger

Explanation

Phishing uses a fake communication or site that imitates a trusted entity to trick a user into disclosing credentials. Here the victim voluntarily typed the password into a spoofed page. A denial-of-service attack floods a system to make it unavailable, which did not occur here.

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