Question

_____________ will encrypt all your system files and will ask you to pay a ransom in order to decrypt all the files and unlock the system. (a) Scareware (b) Ransomware (c) Adware (d) Spyware The question was posed to me during an interview for a job. The query is from How Security Breach Takes Place in section Security Ethics, Security Breach Scenarios & Corporate Security of Cyber Security Select the correct answer from above options Cyber Security questions and answers, Cyber Security questions pdf, Cyber Security question bank, Cyber Security questions and answers pdf, mcq on Cyber Security pdf,

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Ransomware For explanation I would say: Ransomware is special types of malware that will infect your system, compromise all data by encrypting them and will pop up asking you for a ransom which will be in the form of Bitcoins (so that the attacker do not get tracked) and once the ransom is paid, it will release all files.