High School

What kind of attack is occurring when a network resource masquerades as a network server, causing hosts on the network to send requests to the attacker rather than the legitimate network server?

Answer :

Answer: Spoofing

Explanation: Spoofing is described as the attack that involves the attacker in a disguised form ,and attacks the network host by informing about its own address and data in a fraud manner to attacker sources. It is usually termed as the impersonation through technology to fraud with computer devices or the user.

Spoofing is of many forms such as:_

  • MAC address spoofing
  • DNS spoofing
  • IP address spoofing
  • ARP spoofing