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An employee receives an email that appears to come from the finance director, asking for urgent bank details of a supplier to be changed via a link. The link leads to a fake website that captures login details. Which type of attack is this?

This is phishing. Phishing uses a fraudulent message that appears to come from a trusted person to trick the recipient into revealing credentials or making payments. It is not a denial of service attack, which overwhelms a system, nor data mining, which analyses data.

  1. APhishingCorrect
  2. BDenial of service
  3. CData mining

Explanation

Phishing uses deceptive emails that appear to come from a trusted source to trick recipients into revealing credentials or data. A denial of service attack floods a system to make it unavailable, and data mining is a legitimate analytical technique, not an attack.

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