ITPEC FE Morning October 2023 Question 39

Collecting the password entered for Internet banking — a key logger records what the user types on the keyboard.

A key logger, software or a hardware device between keyboard and PC, captures every keystroke and sends or stores it for the attacker. Passwords, PINs and card numbers typed into a banking site are its typical target.

Answer (b)

Why not others:

• •(a) — intercepting and falsifying traffic between two parties is a man-in-the-middle attack
• •(c) — showing unwanted advertisements is adware
• •(d) — adding a tool bar the user did not install is a browser hijacker or unwanted toolbar program

Key rule: Name malware by what it does: key logger records keystrokes, spyware collects information, adware shows advertisements, ransomware encrypts files for a ransom.

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