Network attacks

Network attacks

1. Malware

   • Malware short for malicious software, is an umbrella term used to refer to a variety of forms of harmful or intrusive software, including: computer viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, scareware, and other programs like these.

2. Phishing

   • Email Phishing scams are carried out online by tech-savvy con artists and identity theft criminals. They use spam, fake websites constructed to look identical to real sites, email and instant messages to trick you into sensitive information, like bank account passwords and credit card numbers.

3. Ransomware

   • Paying the ransom does not guarantee that you will be able to decrypt your files. In some cases, paying the ransom can make you a target for more malware attacks.

4. Trojan Horse

   • Trojans are also known to create a backdoor on your computer that gives malicious users access to your system, possibly allowing confidential or personal information to be compromised. Unlike viruses and worms, Trojans do not reproduce by infecting other files nor do they self-replicate.

5. Brute force attack

   • (also known as brute force cracking) is a trial and error method used by application programs to decode encrypted data such as passwords or Data Encryption through exhaustive effort (using brute force) rather than employing intellectual strategies.

6. Denial of service

   • In computing, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is a cyber-attack where the perpetrator seeks to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or indefinitely disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.

7. Social engineering

   • Social engineering is an attack vector that relies heavily on human interaction and often involves tricking people into breaking normal security procedures

8. Man in the middle

   • Man-in-the-middle attack. ... In cryptography and computer security, a man-in-the-middle attack is an attack where the attacker secretly relays and possibly alters the communication between two parties who believe they are directly communicating with each other.

9. Packet sniffing / eavesdropping

   • A packet sniffing is a computer program or piece of computer hardware that can intercept and log traffic that passes over a digital network or part of a network

10. Message Tampering

    • Parameter tampering is a form of Web-based attack in which certain parameters in the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) or Web page form field data entered by a user are changed without that user's authorization.

11. SQL Injection

    • SQL injection is a type of security exploit in which the attacker adds Structured Query Language (SQL) code to a Web form input box to gain access to resources or make changes to data.