An advisory practice was the target of an attack, whereby themalware allowed the fraudster to gain access to an adviser’s logindetails for all systems he had used recently. The fraudster now hadaccess to every website or account that required a login. Thisincluded personal banking, platform desktop software, Xplansoftware and Facebook. The next time the adviser tried to log in tohis platform desktop software, he was locked out. He rang ouraccount executive team to report his access was locked. He couldn’tlogin, even though he was using his correct user name and password.The platform reset his password. The next day when the advisertried again to login, he was locked out of the system again. Itbecame obvious that the adviser’s user ID had been compromised. Atthis point, the user ID was deleted. 1. Identify the malware attackexperienced in the above scenario 2. What recommendations would youprovide for preventing such type of attacks? The recommendationsshould be discussed individually for the scenario and should not bea general list of recommendation
