From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 1 U.S. Privacy Environment
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Adware, spyware, and ransomware
From the course: CIPP/US Cert Prep: 1 U.S. Privacy Environment
Adware, spyware, and ransomware
- [Narrator] As we talked about in the last video, each type of malware has two defining characteristics. A propagation mechanism that determines how it spreads from system to system, and a payload that delivers malicious content to infected systems. We spoke about propagation techniques in the last video. Now let's take a look at three different types of malware payloads. Adware, spyware, and ransomware. We'll begin with adware. Advertising is a very common source of revenue generation online, just as it is on television, in newspapers and other media. Normally, online advertising is quite legitimate. It's a way for people who provide content to generate revenue from that content, but where there's an opportunity to make money there's also an opportunity for malware. Adware is malware that has the specific purpose of displaying advertisements, but instead of generating revenue for the content owner, adware generates…
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