Ashley Baker has been the webmaster for Berryhill Finance on

Ashley Baker has been the webmaster for Berryhill Finance only ten days when she received an e-mail that threatened to shut down Berryhill\'s website unless Ashley wired payment to an overseas account. Ashley was concerned that Berryhill Finance would suffer huge losses if its website went down, so she wired money to the appropriate account. The author of the e-mail successfully committed

Select one:

a. a denial-of-service attack.

b. Internet terrorism.

c. hacking.

d. cyber-extortion.

Solution

Correct answer is option D.Cyber extortion

Cyber extortion is the act of cyber-criminals demanding payment through the use of or threat of some form of malicious activity including by way of emails against the victims.