Threats

Threats

1. Trojan Horse

   • The Trojan Horse is malware which misleads users of it's true intent, they are generally spread by some form of social engineering, for example where a user is duped into executing an email attachment disguised to appear not suspicious,or by clicking on some fake advertisement on social media or anywhere else.

2. Brute Force Attacks

   • In cryptography, a brute-force attack consists of an attacker submitting many passwords or passphrases with the hope of eventually guessing a combination correctly. The attacker systematically checks all possible passwords and passphrases until the correct one is found. Alternatively, the attacker can attempt to guess the key which is typically created from the password using a key derivation function. This is known as an exhaustive key search.

3. Phishing

   • Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information or data, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details or other sensitive details, by impersonating oneself as a trustworthy entity in a digital communication.

4. Spyware

   • Spyware describes software with malicious behavior that aims to gather information about a person or organization and send such information to another entity in a way that harms the user; for example by violating their privacy or endangering their device's security.

5. Virus

   • A computer virus is a type of computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting its own code. If this replication succeeds, the affected areas are then said to be "infected" with a computer virus. Computer viruses generally require a host program

6. DDoS

   • DDos attacks will send multiple requests to the attacked web resource – with the aim of exceeding the website's capacity to handle multiple request and prevent the website from functioning correctly.

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