Question:
Which protocol is attacked when a cybercriminal provides an invalid gateway in order to create a man-in-the-middle attack?
Which protocol is attacked when a cybercriminal provides an invalid gateway in order to create a man-in-the-middle attack?
- DHCP
- DNS
- ICMP
- HTTP or HTTPS
Explanation: A cybercriminal could set up a rogue DHCP server that provides one or more of the following:
- Wrong default gateway that is used to create a man-in-the-middle attack and allow the attacker to intercept data
- Wrong DNS server that results in the user being sent to a malicious website
- Invalid default gateway IP address that results in a denial of service attack on the DHCP client
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