Your company recently had to layoff its system administrator (SA). The day after the SAs last day at exactly midnight, all the network servers deleted themselves. After a forensic analysis, the incident is traced back to malicious code planted by the laid-off SA. What term best describes this type of malware attack?
A logic bomb is a piece of code intentionally inserted into a software system that will set off a malicious function when specified conditions are met such as at a specific time, date or after a specific amount of time has passed. To be considered a logic bomb, the payload should be unwanted and unknown to the user of the software.
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