Exploring Cyber Attacks: Various Types and How They Occur

Lets imagine as a story

You have a account on a shopping website and you often order things from here .You use website for hassle free shopping. Your name ,id ,Email is stored on the server .One day you received an email which is asking eligibility for discount shopping voucher from the same website name you used to shopping things. And they asking your account number. This doesn’t seems fishy for you at that time and you give all information they asked because you thought its an account verification just. But after some times you see a big amount of money is cut from your account .It is quite familiar with everyone right???The received email was fake and the author was a third party who was a Hacker. This type of attack is called Cyberattack .

Can you prevent this attack??Yes you can by the help of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity involves techniques that help in securing various digital components ,networks ,data ,and computer systems from unauthorized access.

Malware Attack

This is a common cyber attack like trojan, adware, spyware .Had you downloaded any suspicious attachments online then your system could have gotten corrupted by viruses within the attachments.

Phishing Attack

Remember the story I told you first that is by email ???Yes that is called phishing attack. The hacker sends fault email which seems like real .This is done to install malware or to steal sensitive data like card and login .

Man in the Middle Attack

Sometimes we saw/hear that in social media licked many sensitive information by third party .How this happens??Hacker gain access between your device and the website server you are using. Hacker takes your IP address and communication between you and website interpreted secretly by hacker. This happens for unsecured wifi net and also through malware.

Password Attack

This is very common and easy attack by common alphabetic mixing or guessing or using any trick ,hack your pass ,this is called password attack.