Your security team has discovered a malicious program that has been harvesting the CEO’s email messages
and the company’s user database for the last 6 months. What type of attack did your team discover? (Choose
two)

A.
advanced persistent threat

B.
targeted malware

C.
drive-by spyware

D.
social activism

Explanation:
BD
An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a prolonged, aimed attack on a specific target with the intention to
compromise their system and gain information from or about that target.
The target can be a person, an organization or a business.
Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/malware/2016/07/explained-advanced-persistent-threat-apt/
One new malware threat has emerged as a definite concern, namely, targeted malware. Instead of blanketing
the Internet with a worm, targeted attacks concentrate on a single high-value target.
Source: http://crissp.poly.edu/wissp08/panel_malware.htm