Free CompTIA Security+ SY0-601 Practice Question
An employee has reported that their computer has been typing slowly and intermittently displaying characters they did not type, which later disappear. Suspecting a security issue, you investigate their workstation for potential threats. What type of attack is likely occurring if further investigation reveals the existence of a program capturing and transmitting keystrokes to an unknown remote server?
The employee's computer is infected with ransomware.
The computer is experiencing a buffer overflow exploit in one of its applications.
The workstation is being targeted by a brute-force attack.
The workstation is undergoing a denial-of-service attack from an internal source.
There is a network packet sniffer capturing traffic on the local subnet.
A keylogger is installed on the workstation.
