Exam 312-50v13 topic 1 question 32 discussion

Watering hole attack is a cyberattack targeting a particular organization, in which malware is installed on a website or websites regularly visited by the organization's members in order to infect computers used within the organization itself.

-Network-Based Scanner: Network-based scanners are those that interact only with the real machine where they reside and give the report to the same machine after scanning. -Agent-Based Scanner: Agent-based scanners reside on a single machine but can scan several machines on the same network. -Proxy Scanner: Proxy scanners are the network-based scanners that can scan networks from any machine on the network. -Cluster scanner: Cluster scanners are similar to proxy scanners, but they can simultaneously perform two or more scans on different machines in the network p.585

Module 14 - page 1961 In a watering hole attack, the attacker identifies the kind of websites frequently surfed by a target company/individual and tests these websites to identify any possible vulnerabilities