Q: 6
An engineer is investigating several cases of increased incoming spam emails and suspicious emails
from the HR and service departments. While checking the event sources, the website monitoring
tool showed several web scraping alerts overnight. Which type of compromise is indicated?
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Discussion
C here, social engineering makes sense since web scraping can help attackers harvest info for targeted attacks, not just mass phishing. This combo matches more with info gathering plus manipulation tactics. Pretty confident but let me know if you think otherwise.
A tbh had something like this in a mock, fits the email spam angle.
C , social engineering covers both suspicious emails and web scraping for info gathering. Phishing is tempting too but the combo fits social engineering better in most scenarios. Let me know if you see it another way.
I don’t think it’s A, looks more like C based on the scrape trap.
Maybe C. Social engineering fits since there are suspicious emails from HR and service, plus the scraping alerts could mean someone's gathering intel for later attacks. Not 100% sure since phishing (A) is tempting too, but C feels a bit broader here.
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