Question

After getting a taste for illegal activity, Jody and David decide to participate in other illegal cybercrimes. They decide to use the university listserv to email all students and faculty at the university notifying them that their account has been hacked and to email their name and password back to the sender. This is an example of ______.

a. phishingb. cyber smear c. a pump and dumpd. spear-phishing

Answer 1

This is an example of D. Spear-phishing.

Step-by-step explanation:

Spear-phishing is understood as a scam email targeted to someone in particular, be it an individual, school, organization or company, amongst others. Its main purpose is to steal sensitive data and information such as credentials, account details, financial information, etc.

In this case we can see Jody and David are targeting the students and faculty from the university, so they have a specific target and they want their account credentials.