Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To accomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machine on the same physical host as her victim’s virtual machine and took advantage of shared physical resources(processor cache) to steal data (cryptographic key/plaintext secrets) from the victim machine.

Alice is a disgruntled employee. She decided to acquire critical information from her organization for financial benefit. To accomplish this, Alice started running a virtual machine on the same physical host as her victim’s virtual machine and took advantage of shared physical resources(processor cache) to steal data (cryptographic key/plaintext secrets) from the victim machine.

Identify the type of attack Alice is performing in the above scenario.
A . Man-in-the-cloud attack
B . Service hijacking
C . Side channel attack
D . SQL injection attack

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Answer: C