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A user, Steve, at Skillset finds a flash drive in his hotel room and chooses to plug it into his laptop to see what is on it. When he returns to the Skillset offices a few days later, he takes the laptop to the IT department and reports that it is running very slow and even has crashed a few times. The tech in IT sees that there are unauthorized applications installed on the laptop, the usage of the CPU is very high and he finds evidence of screenshots taken from the work of Steve and sent to other locations on the company network. What is this problem an example of?

automatic updates

hacking

spyware

malware

application layer

Explanation

M1-T08-Malware Types

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