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0John is a network administrator for Acme Company. He has discovered that someone has registered a domain name that is spelled just one letter different than his company's domain. The website with the misspelled URL is a phishing site. What best describes this attack?
Answer Options
A
Session hijacking
B
Cross-site request forgery
C
Typo squatting
D
Clickjacking
Correct Answer: C
Explanation
This is an example of typo squatting. The website is off by only one or two letters, and the attacker hopes that users of the real website mistype the URL and are taken to their fake website. Session hijacking is taking over an authenticated session. Cross-site request forgery sends fake requests to a website that purport to be from a trusted, authenticated user. Clickjacking attempts to trick users into clicking on something other than what they intended.