An employee was conducting research on the Internet when a message from cyber criminals appeared on the screen, stating the hard drive was just encrypted by a ransomware variant. An analyst observes the following: Antivirus signatures were updated recently The desktop background was changed Web proxy logs show browsing to various information security sites and ad network traffic There is a high volume of hard disk activity on the file server SMTP server shown the employee recently received several emails from blocked senders The company recently switched web hosting providers There are several IPS alerts for external port scans Which of the following describes how the employee got this type of ransomware?

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An employee was conducting research on the Internet when a message from cyber criminals appeared on the screen, stating the hard drive was just encrypted by a ransomware variant. An analyst observes the following:<br/> Antivirus signatures were updated recently<br/> The desktop background was changed<br/> Web proxy logs show browsing to various information security sites and ad network traffic<br/> There is a high volume of hard disk activity on the file server<br/> SMTP server shown the employee recently received several emails from blocked senders<br/> The company recently switched web hosting providers<br/> There are several IPS alerts for external port scans<br/> Which of the following describes how the employee got this type of ransomware?