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    The document discusses various cyber threat actors and their motivations. Hacktivists are motivated by political, social, or moral disagreements. Cyber terrorists seek to cause intimidation through disruption and damage through ideology. Cyber criminals are motivated by money, while explorers seek notoriety. The document is a quiz assessing knowledge of these different threat actors, their tactics like zero-day exploits and phishing, and tools commonly used in cyber attacks such as ransomware and botnets.

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    The document discusses various cyber threat actors and their motivations. Hacktivists are motivated by political, social, or moral disagreements. Cyber terrorists seek to cause intimidation through disruption and damage through ideology. Cyber criminals are motivated by money, while explorers seek notoriety. The document is a quiz assessing knowledge of these different threat actors, their tactics like zero-day exploits and phishing, and tools commonly used in cyber attacks such as ransomware and botnets.

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    The document discusses various cyber threat actors and their motivations. Hacktivists are motivated by political, social, or moral disagreements. Cyber terrorists seek to cause intimidation through disruption and damage through ideology. Cyber criminals are motivated by money, while explorers seek notoriety. The document is a quiz assessing knowledge of these different threat actors, their tactics like zero-day exploits and phishing, and tools commonly used in cyber attacks such as ransomware and botnets.

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     The Threat Landscape

    Started on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 4:07 PM


    State Finished
    Completed on Tuesday, 28 January 2020, 4:10 PM
    Time taken 2 mins 5 secs
    Marks 10.00/10.00
    Grade 100.00 out of 100.00
    Feedback Congratulations, you have passed.

    Question 1 Attacking systems by exploiting otherwise unknown and unpatched vulnerabilities is also known as:
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    Zero-day exploits 

    Secret sauce

    First-day exploits

    Phishing

    Question 2 What are the primary motivations of the “Hacktivist”?


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    Food, wine, and gambling

    Political, social, or moral disagreements 

    The cost of commercial software and support

    The appreciation of their country’s leaders

    Question 3 What central component is necessary to form a botnet?


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    Command & Control (C&C) Server 

    Transformer

    DNS server

    Ethernet switch

    Question 4 What is it called when a fraudulent email masquerades as a legitimate communication in an attempt to get a user to reveal sensitive
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    Harpooning

    Phishing 

    Baselining

    Trolling
    Question 5 What is the goal of the “Cyber Terrorist”?
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    Peace through understanding

    Intimidation through disruption and damage 

    Stable world markets

    Adoption of Bitcoin as a primary national currency

    Question 6 What is the motivation of the bad actor known as the “Explorer”?
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    Food

    Money

    Notoriety 

    Ideology

    Question 7 What is the motivation of the “Cyber Terrorist”?


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    Compassion

    Ideology 

    Fortune

    Fame

    Question 8 What is the motive of the “Cyber Criminal”?


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    Ideology

    Money 

    Intimidation

    Fame

    Question 9 What is the name of the malware that takes over a computer system and holds hostage the disk drives or other data?
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    Phishingware

    Ransomware 

    Scareware

    Kidnapware

    Question 10 What is the primary motivation of the “Cyber Warrior”?


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    Fame

    The adoption of Bitcoin as a national currency

    The political interest of their country’s government 

    Money

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