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What variation of a dictionary attack involves a dictionary attack combined with a brute force attack, and will slightly alter dictionary words by adding numbers to the end of the password, spelling words backward, slightly misspelling words, or including special characters?

a. brute force
b. hash replay
c. network replay
d. hybrid

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Answer:

D) Hybrid Attack

Step-by-step explanation:

This type of attack is a blend of both a dictionary and brute force attack. The meaning of this is, while a dictionary attack method would capture a wordlist of passwords, the brute-force attack would be applied to each of password captured.

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