Question

An attacker compromises the Washington Post's web server and proceeds to modify the homepage slightly by inserting a 1x1 pixel iframe that directs all website visitors to a webpage of his choosing that then installs malware on the visitors' computers. The attacker did this explicitly because he knows that US policymakers frequent the website. This would be an example of a ___________ attack.

Answer 1

Water holing is the correct answer to this question.

Explanation:

Waterholing:-

It is a kind of attack in which the attacker detects the sites that the targets of the group frequently access and then afflicts the sites with the ransomware. Which afflicts selected representatives of the target group.

The watering hole assault is a data breach wherein the individual attempts to infiltrate a particular demographic of end-users by harming sites reported to be visited by team members. The aim is to compromise a specific target data and gain network access at the perpetrator's place of work.