An Employee at ABC Inc

question 107

Multiple Choice

An employee at ABC Inc. downloaded an email and opened the attachment contained within the message. Shortly afterwards all employees were blocked from accessing files on the company's servers and the criminals told ABC Inc. they would have to pay a large amount of Bitcoin to regain access to their files. ABC Inc. was a victim of ____________.

• A) ransomware
• B) identity theft
• C) spyware
• D) cyber warfare

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Definitions:

Haldane

A principle named after J.B.S. Haldane, suggesting that the rate at which a gas is absorbed by a liquid is proportional to the pressure of the gas above the liquid, provided the gas does not react with the solvent.

Prokaryotic

Pertains to organisms without a distinct nucleus, consisting of bacteria and archaea.

Microfossils

Tiny fossilized structures, often less than 1mm in size, that require microscopic examination to study and are used in geological and biological research for dating rocks and understanding past environments.

Stromatolites

Layered sedimentary formations created by the growth of microbial mats, among the oldest evidence of life on Earth.