Cyber Security
Top 10 Most Common Types of Cyber Attacks
A cyber attack is any type of offensive action that
targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks
or personal computer devices, using various methods to steal, alter or
destroy data or information systems.
Today I’ll describe the 10 most common cyber attack types:
- Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
- Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack
- Phishing and spear phishing attacks
- Drive-by attack
- Password attack
- SQL injection attack
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack
- Eavesdropping attack
- Birthday attack
- Malware attack
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1. Denial-of-service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks
there are many typs of dos and ddos attacks.
1.1-> TCP SYN flood attack
1.2-> Teardrop attack
1.3-> Smurf attack
1.4-> Ping of death attack
1.5-> Botnets
2. Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack
2.1-> Session hijacking
2.2-> IP Spoofing
2.3-> Replay
3. Phishing and spear phishing attacks
4. Drive-by attack
5. Password attack
5.1-> Brute-force
5.2-> Dictionary attack
6. SQL injection attack
7. Cross-site scripting (XSS) attack
8. Eavesdropping attack
8.1-> Passive eavesdropping
8.2-> Active eavesdropping
9. Birthday attack
10. Malware attack
10.1-> Macro viruses
10.2-> File infectors
10.3-> System or boot-record infectors
10.4-> Polymorphic viruses
10.5-> Stealth viruses
10.6-> Trojans
10.7-> Logic bombs
10.8-> Worms
10.9-> Droppers
10.10-> Ransomware
10.11-> Adware
10.12-> Spyware
