Question

A network resource is masquerading as a network server and is causing hosts on the network to send requests to the attacker rather than the legitimate network server. What kind of attack is this?

Answer 1

Answer: Spoofing

Explanation: Spoofing is described as the attack that involves the attacker in a disguised form ,and attacks the network host by informing about its own address and data in a fraud manner to attacker sources. It is usually termed as the impersonation through technology to fraud with computer devices or the user.

Spoofing is of many forms such as:_

• MAC address spoofing
• DNS spoofing
• IP address spoofing
• ARP spoofing