A technician recently fixed a computer with several viruses and spyware programs on it and notices the Internet settings were set to redirect all traffic through an unknown proxy. This type of attack is known as which of the following? A. PhishingB. Social engineeringC. Man-in-the-middleD. Shoulder surfing

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Yareli

20 February, 06:52

A technician recently fixed a computer with several viruses and spyware programs on it and notices the Internet settings were set to redirect all traffic through an unknown proxy. This type of attack is known as which of the following? A. PhishingB. Social engineeringC. Man-in-the-middleD. Shoulder surfing

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Keyon Chung · Answer 1

C. Man-in-the-middle

Explanation:

The man-in-the-middle technique is about the interference of a third party in the communication channel, without any of the extremes being able to notice its existence, in this way, for the user as well as for the destination page the communication will seem normal.

In this case, by redirecting traffic to a PROXY server, the attacker will have the possibility to read all the information that passes through it, being able to obtain all the desired data.

Other Malware can be used to configure the connection of the computer through the PROXY of the attacker and in this way the channel is open, until the PROXY is disabled and the malware that redirects is blocked or uninstalled.