You are a cybersecurity analyst working at a financial institution. An unusual pattern of financial transactions was detected, suggesting potential fraud or money laundering. What specific type of threat intelligence would you rely on to analyze these financial activities and identify potential risks?

• A. CHIS
• B. TECHINT
• C. FININT
• D. OSINT

Michael, a threat analyst, works in an organization named TechTop, was asked to conduct a cyber-threat intelligence analysis. After obtaining information regarding threats, he has started analyzing the information and understanding the nature of the threats.
What stage of the cyber-threat intelligence is Michael currently in?

• A. Unknowns unknown
• B. Known knowns
• C. Known unknowns
• D. Unknown unknowns

A threat analyst obtains an intelligence related to a threat, where the data is sent in the form of a connection request from a remote host to the server. From this data, he obtains only the IP address of the source and destination but no contextual information. While processing this data, he obtains contextual information stating that multiple connection requests from different geo-locations are received by the server within a short time span, and as a result, the server is stressed and gradually its performance has reduced. He further performed analysis on the information based on the past and present experience and concludes the attack experienced by the client organization.
Which of the following attacks is performed on the client organization?

• A. DHCP attacks
• B. Bandwidth attack
• C. Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack
• D. MAC spoofing attack

Sam works as an analyst in an organization named InfoTech Security. He was asked to collect information from various threat intelligence sources. In meeting the deadline, he forgot to verify the threat intelligence sources and used data from an open-source data provider, who offered it at a very low cost. Through it was beneficial at the initial stage but relying on such data providers can produce unreliable data and noise putting the organization network into risk.
What mistake Sam did that led to this situation?

• A. Sam used unreliable intelligence sources.
• B. Sam used data without context.
• C. Sam did not use the proper standardization formats for representing threat data.
• D. Sam did not use the proper technology to use or consume the information.

In which of the following attacks does the attacker exploit vulnerabilities in a computer application before the software developer can release a patch for them?

• A. Advanced persistent attack
• B. Zero-day attack
• C. Active online attack
• D. Distributed network attack