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A company's staff receive emails that appear to come from the finance director, asking them to click a link and enter their system login details. Which type of cyber attack is this?
This is phishing. Fraudulent emails that appear to come from a trusted person, such as the finance director, trick recipients into following links and disclosing login details. It relies on deception of staff rather than overloading systems, encrypting files or guessing passwords repeatedly.
- APhishingCorrect
- BDenial of service
- CMalware encryption of backups
- DBrute force password guessing
Explanation
Phishing uses deceptive messages that appear to come from a trusted source to trick people into revealing credentials. A denial of service attack floods a system with traffic to make it unavailable and does not involve deceiving staff into entering details.
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