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Ralph, a professional hacker, targeted Jane , who had recently bought new systems for her company. After a few days, Ralph contacted Jane while masquerading as a legitimate customer support executive, informing that her systems need to be serviced for proper functioning and that customer support will send a computer technician. Jane promptly replied positively. Ralph entered Jane’s company using this opportunity and gathered sensitive informations by scanning terminals for passwords, searching for important documents in desks, and rummaging bins. What is the type of attack technique Ralph used on Jane?

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Ralph, a professional hacker, targeted Jane , who had recently bought new systems for her company. After a few days, Ralph contacted Jane while masquerading as a legitimate customer support executive, informing that her systems need to be serviced for proper functioning and that customer support will send a computer technician. Jane promptly replied positively. Ralph entered Jane’s company using this opportunity and gathered sensitive informations by scanning terminals for passwords, searching for important documents …

Ralph, a professional hacker, targeted Jane , who had recently bought new systems for her company. After a few days, Ralph contacted Jane while masquerading as a legitimate customer support executive, informing that her systems need to be serviced for proper functioning and that customer support will send a computer technician. Jane promptly replied positively. Ralph entered Jane’s company using this opportunity and gathered sensitive informations by scanning terminals for passwords, searching for important documents in desks, and rummaging bins. What is the type of attack technique Ralph used on Jane? Read More »

contact

Johnson, an attacker, performed online research for the contact details of reputed cybersecurity firms. He found the contact number of sibertech.org and dialed the number, claiming himself to represent a technical support team from a vendor. He warned that a specific server is about to be compromised and requested sibertech.org to follow the provided instructions. Consequently, he prompted the victim to execute unusual commands and install malicious files, which were then used to collect and pass critical information to Johnson’s machine. What is the social engineering technique Steve employed in the above scenario?

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Johnson, an attacker, performed online research for the contact details of reputed cybersecurity firms. He found the contact number of sibertech.org and dialed the number, claiming himself to represent a technical support team from a vendor. He warned that a specific server is about to be compromised and requested sibertech.org to follow the provided instructions. Consequently, he prompted the victim to execute unusual commands and install malicious files, which were then used to collect and …

Johnson, an attacker, performed online research for the contact details of reputed cybersecurity firms. He found the contact number of sibertech.org and dialed the number, claiming himself to represent a technical support team from a vendor. He warned that a specific server is about to be compromised and requested sibertech.org to follow the provided instructions. Consequently, he prompted the victim to execute unusual commands and install malicious files, which were then used to collect and pass critical information to Johnson’s machine. What is the social engineering technique Steve employed in the above scenario? Read More »

Wilson, a professional hacker, targets an organization for financial benefits and plans to compromise its systems by sending malicious emails. For this purpose, he uses a tool to track the emails of the target and extracts information such as sender identities, mail servers, sender IP addresses, and sender locations from different public sources. He also checks if an email address was leaked using the haveibeenpwned.com API. Which of the following tools is used by Wilson in the above scenario?

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Wilson, a professional hacker, targets an organization for financial benefits and plans to compromise its systems by sending malicious email. For this purpose, he uses a tool to track the email of the target and extracts information such as sender identities, email servers, sender IP addresses, and sender locations from different public sources. He also checks if an email address was leaked using the haveibeenpwned.com API. Which of the following tools is used by Wilson …

Wilson, a professional hacker, targets an organization for financial benefits and plans to compromise its systems by sending malicious emails. For this purpose, he uses a tool to track the emails of the target and extracts information such as sender identities, mail servers, sender IP addresses, and sender locations from different public sources. He also checks if an email address was leaked using the haveibeenpwned.com API. Which of the following tools is used by Wilson in the above scenario? Read More »

domain

Gerard, a did gruntled ex-employee of Sunglass IT Solutions, targets this organization to perform sophisticated attack and bring down its reputation in the market . To launch the attack process, he performed DNS footprinting to gather information about DNS servers and to identify the hosts connected in the target network. He used an automated tool that can retrieve information about DNS zone data including DNS domain names, computer names, IP addresses, DNS records, and network Whois records. He further exploited this information to launch other sophisticated attack. What is the tool employed by Gerard in the above scenario?

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Gerard, a did gruntled ex-employee of Sunglass IT Solutions, targets this organization to perform sophisticated attack and bring down its reputation in the market . To launch the attack process, he performed DNS footprinting to gather information about DNS servers and to identify the hosts connected in the target network. He used an automated tool that can retrieve information about DNS zone data including DNS domain names, computer names, IP addresses, DNS records, and network …

Gerard, a did gruntled ex-employee of Sunglass IT Solutions, targets this organization to perform sophisticated attack and bring down its reputation in the market . To launch the attack process, he performed DNS footprinting to gather information about DNS servers and to identify the hosts connected in the target network. He used an automated tool that can retrieve information about DNS zone data including DNS domain names, computer names, IP addresses, DNS records, and network Whois records. He further exploited this information to launch other sophisticated attack. What is the tool employed by Gerard in the above scenario? Read More »

credentials

Sam, a professional hacker, targeted an organization with intention of compromising AWS IAM credentials. He attempted to lure one of the employees of the organization by initiating fake calls while posing as a legimate employee. Moreover, he sent phishing emails to steal the AWS IAM credentials and further compromise the employee’s account What is the technique used by Sam to compromise the AWS IAM credentials?

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Sam, a professional hacker, targeted an organization with intention of compromising AWS IAM credentials. He attempted to lure one of the employees of the organization by initiating fake calls while posing as a legimate employee. Moreover, he sent phishing emails to steal the AWS IAM credentials and further compromise the employee’s account What is the technique used by Sam to compromise the AWS IAM credentials? Option 1: Reverse engineering Option 2: Social engineering Option 3: …

Sam, a professional hacker, targeted an organization with intention of compromising AWS IAM credentials. He attempted to lure one of the employees of the organization by initiating fake calls while posing as a legimate employee. Moreover, he sent phishing emails to steal the AWS IAM credentials and further compromise the employee’s account What is the technique used by Sam to compromise the AWS IAM credentials? Read More »

APT

Harry, a professional hacker, targeted the IT infrastructure of an organization. After preparing for the attack, he attempts to enter the target network using techniques such as sending spear-phishing emails and exploiting vulnerabilities on publicly available servers. Using these techniques, he successfully deployed malware on the target system to establish an outbound connection. What is the APT lifecycle phase that Harry is currently executing?

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Harry, a professional hacker, targeted the IT infrastructure of an organization. After preparing for the attack, he attempts to enter the target network using techniques such as sending spear-phishing emails and exploiting vulnerabilities on publicly available servers. Using these techniques, he successfully deployed malware on the target system to establish an outbound connection. What is the APT lifecycle phase that Harry is currently executing? Option 1 : Preparation Option 2 : Cleanup Option 3 : …

Harry, a professional hacker, targeted the IT infrastructure of an organization. After preparing for the attack, he attempts to enter the target network using techniques such as sending spear-phishing emails and exploiting vulnerabilities on publicly available servers. Using these techniques, he successfully deployed malware on the target system to establish an outbound connection. What is the APT lifecycle phase that Harry is currently executing? Read More »

stage

You are a penetration tester working to test the user awareness of the employees of the client XYZ . You harvested two employees’ emails from some public sources and are creating a client-side backdoor to send it to the employees via email. Which stage of the cyber kill chain are you at?

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You are a penetration tester working to test the user awareness of the employees of the client XYZ . You harvested two employees’ emails from some public sources and are creating a client-side backdoor to send it to the employees via email. Which stage of the cyber kill chain are you at? Option 1 : Command and control Option 2 : Reconnaissance Option 3 : Exploitation Option 4 : Weaponization 1. Command and control This …

You are a penetration tester working to test the user awareness of the employees of the client XYZ . You harvested two employees’ emails from some public sources and are creating a client-side backdoor to send it to the employees via email. Which stage of the cyber kill chain are you at? Read More »

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What is Email Forensic Investigation

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Email forensics may be a branch of digital forensic science that focuses on investigation of emails to gather digital evidence for crimes and incidents. It comprises in-depth & systematic examination of emails, especially aspects like message transmission routes, attached files and documents, IP addresses of servers and computers, etc. Email forensics professionals use a number of the subsequent common techniques to look at emails and collect digital evidence: 1. Email Header Analysis Email headers contain …

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Investigation of Network Traffic

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Investigation of Network Traffic in this Network forensics are often defined as sniffing, recording, acquisition, and analysis of the network traffic and event logs so as to research a network security incident. It allows investigator to examine network traffic and logs to spot and locate the attacking system. Devices connected to network still proliferate; computers, smartphones, tablets etc. because the number of attacks against networked systems grow, the importance of network forensics has increased and …

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Mac Forensics

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Mac Forensics in this article Mac is short for the Macintosh operating systems developed by Apple to support its line of devices and series of personal computers, Mac is one of the most adopted systems across the globe and is also facing increase in number of attacks annually. The investigators must have knowledge of Mac, its process, policies, functions and internal storage patters used by the operating system to be able to perform forensics. This …

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