What do most people say for “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?

The usual first answers are Virus, Phishing, Malware and Ransomware. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?

106 in all: 4 on The Tip, 12 Below the Surface, 30 in The Deep, 59 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “DDoS” and the longest is “Server-side request forgery”.

How hard is “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?

Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.

Computer Science trivia

Name a type of cyberattack or malware

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 106 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.

Virus
Phishing
Malware
Ransomware

The next answers people reach for

These 12 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:

Trojan
Worm
Spyware
DDoS
Spam
Adware
Keylogger
Botnet
Denial of service
Identity theft
Rootkit
Brute force attack

How deep does “Name a type of cyberattack or malware” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	4	10
Below the Surface	12	25
The Deep	30	50
The Abyss	59	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 30 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, L, M, P, R, S, T, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 59 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

106 answers in total, 53 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “DDoS”. Longest: “Server-side request forgery”.
S, C and D are the most common first letters; together they start 35% of the answers.
16 answers can be typed more than one way: “XSS” counts as Cross-site scripting.

Getting below the surface

Start with S: 19 of the answers begin with it.
Virus, Phishing and Malware are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Go down the stack: from apps to protocols to the hardware underneath.

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Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?: The usual first answers are Virus, Phishing, Malware and Ransomware. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?: 106 in all: 4 on The Tip, 12 Below the Surface, 30 in The Deep, 59 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “DDoS” and the longest is “Server-side request forgery”.
How hard is “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”?: Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.

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