U2-Vocab Review- Cybersecurity

Extort money from the victim by blocking normal operation of a computer

A social engineering attack where an attacker pretends to be someone they are not.

Sneaky software that records information about a PC and its users

A threat actor that is motivated by a social issue or political cause.

Replicates between processes in system memory and can spread over client/server network connections

Infrastructure of hosts and services with which attackers direct, distribute, and control malware over botnets.

Use of deception and trickery to convince unsuspecting users to provide sensitive data or to violate security.

Modifies system files, often at the kernel level, to conceal its presence

Malicious software or hardware that can record user keystrokes

A person or entity responsible for an event that has been identified as a security incident or as a risk.

Set to run under particular circumstances or in response to a defined event

The process by which an attacker copies data from a private network to an external network.

Attacker extracts information while speaking over the phone or VoIP.

Target on specific groups or organizations, discover websites they frequent, inject malicious code into those sites

Software that the user has acknowledged can record information about their habits