Kevin sends an email invite to Chris to visit a forum for security professionals. Chris clicks on the link in the email message and is taken to a web based bulletin board. Unknown to Chris, certain functions are executed on his local system under his privileges, which allow Kevin access to information used on the BBS. However, no executables are downloaded and run on the local system. What would you term this attack?
A.
Phishing
B.
Denial of Service
C.
Cross Site Scripting
D.
Backdoor installation
This starts off as a phishing attack.