100-160: CCST CybersecurityDemo

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QuestionQ6

Essential Security Principles

Employees in a company’s accounting department receive an email about the newest federal accounting regulations. The email includes a hyperlink to register for a webinar that provides the latest updates on financial transaction security. The webinar is hosted by a government agency. As a security officer, you notice that the hyperlink directs to an unknown party.

Which type of cybersecurity threat should you investigate?

  • A Spear phishing
  • B Ransomware
  • C Smishing
  • D Vishing
Explanation

Spear phishing is a targeted phishing attack that uses a credible, role-relevant pretext to persuade a particular group to follow a malicious link or disclose information. An email directed at accounting employees and framed around accounting regulations and transaction security fits this pattern.

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