Malware/Threats

Question 1

What type of file is a virus generally attached to?

Answer 1

.exe

Question 2

Malware capable of traveling without human interaction.

Answer 2

Worm

Question 3

Creates backdoors to allow malicious access.

Answer 3

Trojan horse

Question 4

DoS, DDoS

Answer 4

(Distributed) Denial of Service

Question 5

Traffic DoS attack

Answer 5

Traffic flooding attacks send a huge volume of TCP, UDP and ICPM packets to the target. Legitimate requests get lost and these attacks may be accompanied by malware exploitation.

Question 6

Bandwidth DDoS attack

Answer 6

This DDos attack overloads the target with massive amounts of junk data. This results in a loss of network bandwidth and equipment resources and can lead to a complete denial of service.

Question 7

Application DoS attack

Answer 7

Application-layer data messages can deplete resources in the application layer, leaving the target’s system services unavailable.

Question 8

What does ransomware do?

Answer 8

Ransomeware encrypts key files and holds for ransom, in many cases, bitcoin.

Question 9

What is the delivery vector for Ransomware?

Answer 9

Ransomeware can be delivered through email, script files, zip files, and internet downloads.

Question 10

How can you defend against ransomware?

Answer 10

Never open spam
Run updates
use antivirus
turn off external apps
keep external data backups

Question 11

Logic Bombs

Answer 11

also called slag code. Will only function maliciously under circumstances, time or course of action.