HOTSPOT
Select the appropriate attack from each drop down list to label the corresponding illustrated attack
Instructions: Attacks may only be used once, and will disappear from drop down list if selected.

When you have completed the simulation, please select the Done button to submit.

Answer: See the explanation

Explanation:

1: Spear phishing is an e-mail spoofing fraud attempt that targets a specific organization, seeking
unauthorized access to confidential data. As with the e-mail messages used in regular phishing
expeditions, spear phishing messages appear to come from a trusted source. Phishing messages

usually appear to come from a large and well-known company or Web site with a broad
membership base, such as eBay or PayPal. In the case of spear phishing, however, the apparent
source of the e-mail is likely to be an individual within the recipient’s own company and generally
someone in a position of authority.
2: The Hoax in this question is designed to make people believe that the fake AV (anti-virus)
software is genuine.
3: Vishing is the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private
information that will be used for identity theft. The scammer usually pretends to be a legitimate
business, and fools the victim into thinking he or she will profit.
4: Phishing is the act of sending an email to a user falsely claiming to be an established legitimate
enterprise in an attempt to scam the user into surrendering private information that will be used for
identity theft.
Phishing email will direct the user to visit a website where they are asked to update personal
information, such as a password, credit card, social security, or bank account numbers, that the
legitimate organization already has. The website, however, is bogus and set up only to steal the
information the user enters on the page.
5: Similar in nature to e-mail phishing, pharming seeks to obtain personal or private (usually
financial related) information through domain spoofing. Rather than being spammed with malicious
and mischievous e-mail requests for you to visit spoof Web sites which appear legitimate,
pharming ‘poisons’ a DNS server by infusing false information into the DNS server, resulting in a
user’s request being redirected elsewhere. Your browser, however will show you are at the correct
Web site, which makes pharming a bit more serious and more difficult to detect. Phishing attempts
to scam people one at a time with an e-mail while pharming allows the scammers to target large
groups of people at one time through domain spoofing.
References:
http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/definition/spear-phishing
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/V/vishing.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/phishing.html
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/pharming.html