Question

select the two correct answers.
the authorities at an it company noticed that an undesirable email was being circulated among all the employees and that it was coming from one of
the employees. the person from whom the email was generated had no clue about it. what may be the two causes for this?

a. hacked password

b. virus attack

c. social engineering

d. phishing

Explanation:

• Option A (hacked password): If an employee's password is hacked, unauthorized individuals can access their email account and send emails without the employee's knowledge.
• Option B (virus attack): A virus can infect a computer, take control of the email client, and send out unwanted emails using the infected user's account, often without the user being aware.
• Options C (social engineering) and D (phishing) are more about techniques to obtain credentials or information, but the scenario here is about unauthorized email sending from an account where the user is unaware, which is better explained by a hacked password (direct account access) or a virus (malware controlling the system to send emails).

Answer:

A. hacked password
B. virus attack