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For each of the scenarios given below, pick which hacking techniques have been used.

Tyler goes to a website that says that it will supply cracked software that doesn’t need a licence. After installing the software, the user is pleased as it works as expected. They notice later that many adverts display on their computer.

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

• Ransomware

• Key logger

For each of the scenarios given below, pick which hacking techniques have been used.

Leila clicked on a file in an email attachment. Today when she turned on her computer, it said that all her files are now encrypted. She has been given 24 hours to pay one bitcoin to unencrypt the files. 

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

• Ransomware

• Key logger

For each of the scenarios given below, pick which hacking techniques have been used.

Richard has downloaded a file from the Internet and run it. After a short while he has noticed that many of the files on his computer have been deleted or corrupted.

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

• Ransomware

• Key logger

For each of the scenarios given below, pick which hacking techniques have been used.

An item of malware has installed itself to a computer. It is secretly recording each character that is pressed by the user and sending it to a hacker.

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

• Ransomware

• Key logger

For each of the scenarios given below, pick which hacking techniques have been used.

A program has been written that targets computers on the Internet. It automatically replicates itself, and whilst it doesn’t harm any individual computers, it does slow down the network.

• Virus

• Worm

• Trojan

• Ransomware

• Key logger

What are the two words used to make the word malware?

Where do Computer Trojans orginate from?

• Greece

• France

• Germany

• America

• UK

• I Hold a computer hostage by locking or ​
  encrypting access to it​. What am i?

Fill in the Blank

A _________ is a small device that connects ​
to a computer