During a network security assessment, you are tasked with intercepting communications between two hosts to capture sensitive data being transmitted. What type of attack would allow an unauthorized party to insert themselves into this communication without the hosts' knowledge?
On-path attack
ARP poisoning
Replay attack
Side-channel attack
An on-path attack allows an attacker to intercept and read, modify, or redirect communication between two parties without their knowledge. This used to be known as a man-in-the-middle attack. The attacker 'sits' on the communication's path and can perform eavesdropping or active interception. ARP poisoning, however, is a technique that could be used to facilitate an on-path attack by corrupting the ARP cache and redirecting network traffic through the attacker's machine. A side-channel attack is a different kind of attack that involves gathering information from the physical implementation of a system. A replay attack involves intercepting and retransmitting a message, but it does not involve inserting the attacker into an ongoing communication channel.
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