Security+ Question of the Week: Planting Malware

The correct answer is A.

A watering hole attack is correct because it is a means to infect a group with malware by planting it at a commonly visited location.

An IV attack is an exploitation of the WEP wireless encryption system’s plain text transmission and short length of the initialization vector (i.e. random number used in encryption) in order to crack the WEP key in minutes.

A man-in-the-middle attack occurs when an attacker exploits a victim’s resolution process in order to be tricked into setting up their communication with the attacker’s system rather than that of the intended server. The attacker then makes the connection with the intended server and acts like a rogue router or proxy in order to mask the fact that an unauthorized node is the communication path.

A logic bomb is any form of malware which goes silent once it has infected a system and then waits for a triggering mechanism to launch its attack. The trigger could be a time and date, keystroke, URL, document opened, etc.