A Penetration Tester Is Planning to Conduct a Distributed Dictionary

question 86

Multiple Choice

A penetration tester is planning to conduct a distributed dictionary attack on a government domain against the login portal. The tester will leverage multiple proxies to mask the origin IPs of the attack. Which of the following threat actors will be emulated?

• A) APT
• B) Hacktivist
• C) Script kiddie
• D) Insider threat

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