CompTIA CySA+ CS0-003 Practice Question

An analyst is reviewing the login activity of a recently terminated employee's user account. The analyst notices multiple authentication attempts from a foreign country only hours after the employee's departure. What is the BEST explanation for this anomaly?

  • The employee's credentials have been compromised.

  • There is a hardware failure causing erroneous reporting of login locations.

  • The network is experiencing a distributed denial-of-service attack.

  • The company is under a social engineering attack targeting former employees.

CompTIA CySA+ CS0-003
Security Operations
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