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Ashley Baker has been the webmaster for Berryhill Finance only ten days when Berryhill's website was scheduled for a routine security patch update. Unbeknown to Ashley, cybercrooks found out the timing of the patch update and launched attacks right before Berryhill's update from a remote location miles away. As a result of the attack, Berryhill lost a significant amount of clients' private information. Berryhill Finance suffered from a identity theft attack. cyber-extortion attack. zero-day attack. hacking attack.

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Answer:

zero-day attack

Explanation:

While some group of people will define zero-day attacks as those attacks that are targeted on the vulnerabilities of a system that has not been patched or made public, other group define this attack as an attack that capitalizes on the security vulnerabilities of a system on that day that the vulnerability is made public. In the case of Ashley Baker, the cybercrooks capitalized on the vulnerability of the system and launched before the patch was done.

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