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Lab - Visualizing the Black Hats

Objectives

Research and analyze cyber security incidents.

Background / Scenario
The FBI has estimated that cybercrime cost individuals and companies over 3.5 billion dollars in 2019.
Governments, businesses, and individual users are increasingly the targets of cyberattacks and cybersecurity
incidents are becoming more common.
In this lab, you will create three hypothetical cyber attackers, each with an organization, an attack, a motive.
In addition, suggest a method by which an organization could prevent or mitigate the attack.
Note: You can use the web browser in the virtual machine that was installed in a previous lab to research
security issues. By using the virtual machine, you may prevent malware from being installed on your
computer.

Required Resources
• PC or mobile device with internet access and virtual machine (optional)

Instructions

Scenario 1:
a. Who is the attacker?
“Ghotz” an individual hacker who steals personal data and commits financial fraud.

b. What organization or group is the attacker associated with, if any?


They are part of a group of
cybercriminals on the dark
web.

c. What is the motive of the attacker?


The motive is to gain
personal information.

d. What method of attack was used?


They use phishing emails that are disguised
as a bank to ask victims for their account
info.
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e. What was the target and vulnerability used against the business?
The vulnerability is getting
user info by posing as the
bank.

f. How could this attack be prevented or mitigated?


Type your answers here.
It can be mitigated by the
bank giving a sign or some
sort of special email that
only they can use.

Scenario 2:
a. Who is the attacker?
The attacker is a person
who exploits vulnerabilities
in a software.

b. What organization/group is the attacker associated with?


Part of a cyber group on the
black web.

c. What is the motive of the attacker?

Their motive is to gain political or military


information on other countries.

d. What method of attack was used?


The method of atack was a
phishing attack to get
information.

e. What was the target and vulnerability used against the business?
The vulnerability was a
unsecure software in the
organization’s

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f. How could this attack be prevented or mitigated?


Type your answers
This attack here.
could be mitigated by trying to secure software that is
unsafe/ in danger.

Scenario 3:
a. Who is the attacker?
The attacker is a hacker who hacks just for personal interests.

b. What organization/group is the attacker associated with?


None

c. What is the motive of the attacker?


His motive is to find weak passwords to use to hack people’ s accounts.

d. What method of attack was used?


The method of attack was guessing passwords.

e. What was the target and vulnerability used against the business?
Easy to guess passwords make securing information
hard.

f. How could this attack be prevented or mitigated?


Type your answers here.
This attack could be prevented by businesses requiring
people to create complex passwords.

End of document

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