Question

An attempt to redirect internet traffic from a legitimate site to a different identical-looking site is categorized as which social engineering attack vector?

Answer 1

Answer:PHARMING

Explanation:

Social engineering can be defined as an attempt to manage,change and regulate the future development and the behaviour of a society.

Common types of social engineering attack include; Watering hole, Pretexting, Phishing,Whaling attack, Baiting, PHARMING, and so on.

PHARMING is an attempt to redirect internet traffic from a legitimate site to a different identical-looking site. PHARMING is a spamming practice, a cyberattack and also, a type of phishing in which hackers use in stealing personal information from people on the internet.

PHARMING is done through the injection of malicious data or code into the victims' computer system. This injection is known as the DNS cache poisoning.