Common Types of Cyber Threats

Cyber threats are malicious act to damage and steal data which is include threats like computer viruses, data breaches, and Denial of Service (DoS) attacks that can cause failure and security breaches to your devices and network. Cyber threats becoming serious and growing from day to day and never become static. All the threats coming from variety of sources and being developed every year to get benefit from vulnerable business systems.  Even though well-known security devices are equipped with the latest signature but the attack also becoming more intelligent such as “zero-day” threats that are able to surprise defenses because they are no detectable digital signatures and this is where Advanced Threat Protection or Sandboxing solutions coming in to detect anomalous traffic and analyze unknown threats.

Most common Cyber Threats

Denial of Service attack and Distributed Denial of Service Attack (DDoS) Intend to paralyze computer network by flooding it with data sent simultaneously from many individual computers. As a result, the system is unable to fulfill legitimate requests.

Malware is a malicious software, including spyware, ransomware, viruses, and worms that can breach your network through vulnerability to obtains information and blocks access to your data.

Phishing is an attack coming from email whereby the attacker sends an email look like legit email require some personal information details.

Man in the Middle (MitM) attack also known as eavesdropping attacks. It is happened on unsecure WiFi connection when attackers insert themselves into a two-party transaction to interrupt the traffic to steal data.

SQL injection is an attack where attacker inserts malicious code into a server or website search box that uses SQL and forces the server to reveal information.

Ransomware is an attack that involves encrypting data on the target system and demanding a ransom in exchange for letting the user have access to the data again. This attack becoming serious now days because user willing to pay the ransom to get their data back.

Zero-day exploit an attack when attacker launch hits after a network vulnerability is announced but before a patch or solution is being implemented

As you know, attackers have many options to do the attack. Security breaches is the things that we need to avoid by keeping our endpoint secure. Make sure our operating system is updated to the latest patches, anti-virus database is updated to the latest signature, secure your devices with strong password and make regular backup of your operating system image and data.

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