350-701 Security Concepts Practice Question
During an incident response, a forensic analyst finds that an attacker used a script to modify ARP tables, enabling them to intercept and modify traffic between two hosts. Which attack technique was used?
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Man-in-the-middle
Man-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks, such as ARP spoofing, allow interception and modification of traffic between two parties.
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Man-in-the-middle
Why this is correct
MITM attacks intercept and potentially alter communications.
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Pass-the-hash
Why it's wrong here
Pass-the-hash uses stolen password hashes for authentication.
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Replay attack
Why it's wrong here
Replay attacks involve capturing and retransmitting valid data.
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DNS tunneling
Why it's wrong here
DNS tunneling encodes data in DNS queries.
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