Your help desk has informed you that they received an urgent call from the vice president last night requesting his logon ID and

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Your help desk has informed you that they received an urgent call from the vice president last night requesting his logon ID and

password. You discussed about the call with the VP today and you got to know he never made that call. What type of attack is demonstrated in the given scenario

Computers and Technology

1 answer:

makkiz [27] · Answer 1 · 2022-03-19T07:05:40+03:00

Answer:

Social Engineering Attack

Explanation:

The exploitation of individuals in order to gain confedential information is a Social Engineering Attack. These attacks typically take advanage of one's emotions or they use inpersonaltion to steal data.

read more here: https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/what-is-social-engineering

Lmk if this helps! :)