Calliope is a forensics detective with a law enforcement agency. She discovers that an attacker who has just been caught was using a dead-drop method of controlling the bots in a botnet. Which of the following might have been a clue that the attacker was using this method?   a. Reading log files that contained constant encrypted communications from the attacker's IP address to some of the identified bots     b. Finding a directional antenna and Wi-Fi setup that allowed the bot herder to beam communications directly to the target computers     c. Finding devices that the attacker had hidden on multiple victims' company networks     d. Finding an e-mail account with multiple saved drafts that were never sent but contained instructions the bots were to follow

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Calliope is a forensics detective with a law enforcement agency. She discovers that an attacker who has just been caught was using a dead-drop method of controlling the bots in a botnet. Which of the following might have been a clue that the attacker was using this method?

  a. Reading log files that contained constant encrypted communications from the attacker's IP address to some of the identified bots  
  b. Finding a directional antenna and Wi-Fi setup that allowed the bot herder to beam communications directly to the target computers  
  c. Finding devices that the attacker had hidden on multiple victims' company networks  
  d. Finding an e-mail account with multiple saved drafts that were never sent but contained instructions the bots were to follow
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