Question

_____________ will encrypt all your system files and will ask you to pay a ransom in order to decrypt all the files and unlock the system.

(a) Scareware

(b) Ransomware

(c) Adware

(d) Spyware

The question was posed to me during an interview for a job.

The query is from How Security Breach Takes Place in section Security Ethics, Security Breach Scenarios & Corporate Security of Cyber Security

Answer 1

Right choice is (b) Ransomware

For explanation I would say: Ransomware is special types of malware that will infect your system, compromise all data by encrypting them and will pop up asking you for a ransom which will be in the form of Bitcoins (so that the attacker do not get tracked) and once the ransom is paid, it will release all files.