Question

You are the CEO of a large tech company and have just received an angry email that looks like it came from one of your biggest customers. The email says your company is overbilling the customer and asks that you examine the attached invoice. You do but find it blank, so you reply politely to the sender asking for more details. You never hear back, but a week later your security team tells you that your credentials have been used to access and exfiltrate large amounts of company financial data. What kind of attack did you fall victim to?A. A fly phishing attackB. A shark attackC. As a phishing attackD. As a whale attack

Answer 1

Answer: as a whale attack

Explanation:

A whale attack is simply refered to as an attack that is utilized by cybercriminals and in this case, a senior player such as the CEO is targeted in the company and the aim is to steal sensitive information from them or steal money or gain access to their computer for fraudulent purposes.

Based on the explanation above, the attack called into is a whale attack.