What are the common cyberattacks?

priyankaraul

There are a lot of cyberattacks. List a few of them.

Shriyansh

Here is a list of common cyberattacks aimed at inflicting damage to a system.

• Man-in-the-Middle attack: A man-in-the-middle attack involves the attacker interfering with a conversation between a sender and a receiver. To eavesdrop and pass as another individual, this is done.

• Phishing: In this case, the attacker will pose as a reliable party to carry out harmful actions including obtaining usernames, passwords, and credit card details.

• Rogue software: This type of fraudulent attack has the attacker pretending that the target device has a virus on it while providing an anti-virus program to get rid of the infection. Introduce harmful software into the system, this is done.

• Malware: Software that is intended to attack the target system is known as malware. The software could be spyware, ransomware, a virus, a worm, etc.

• Drive-by Downloads: The hacker takes advantage of the OS, program, or browser's lack of updates to force the system to download malicious code.

• DDoS: This is used to saturate the target network with a lot of traffic, rendering the website or service inaccessible.

• Malvertising: Malvertising is the practice of injecting malicious code into networks of lawful advertising that directs consumers to unexpected websites.

• Password Attacks: In this case, the cyber hacker breaks passwords, as the name implies.