Question

An organization's Finance Director is convinced special malware is responsible for targeting and infecting the finance department files. Xander, a security analyst, confirms the files are corrupted. Xander is aware the Director possesses privileged access but not the security knowledge to understand what really happened. What does Xander believe happened

Answer 1

Answer: Malware infected the Director's machine and used his privileges

Explanation:

Malware simply means malicious software variants, which consists of spyware, viruses, ransomware etc. These can be used by cyberattackers to cause damage to data or in order to have access to a network.

With regards to the question, Xander believed that malware infected the Director's machine and used his privileges which results in the corrupt of the files.