Types of Cyber Attacks

Here are some types of cyber attacks.

• Phising Attack: A phishing attack occurs when attackers send an email from a legitimate source to steal sensitive information, or they may send defected malware links to fool you so that you download the software for that link that contains malware or viruses to steal the data or information. We also prevent phishing attacks by using our analyzing skills to analyze and check the email headers. Do not click any of the malware links that infect your system or device.
• Whale Phising Attack: These attacks focused on high-level C-suite figures such as co-founders and vice presidents. The attackers in that case sent a fraud email to the C-suite profile, stealing very valuable information.
• Spear Phising Attack: The attackers focused on specific organization. The message that send the attackers is looks like legitimate. The attackers also attached a fake website like but it looks like a legitimate. The attackers also attached a fake website link but it looks like a legitimate and if person opens the link they see its legitimate and they enter the details so attackers easily stole that information.
• Password Attack: Passwords are important for attackers to steal any information. Attackers follow a brute force approach, like using your name, anniversary, or birth date as a password, or they may use different combinations to easily get the password. For example, if someone creates a social media account and uses a password like ‘12345678’, a hacker can easily guess the password or crack the password to hack your system or device.
• Malware Attack: Malware is malicious software that is developed by hackers. If the person installed the software that was sent by attackers, it damaged the computer, or in that case, the attacker stole the data.
• Web Attacks: In web attacks, attackers attack the information that is present on the web server. For Example, We are all familiar with online payments. If we send the money from one account to another, we want to enter the details first to process the payments. In that case, attackers are mainly focused on stealing the information or data.
• DOS Attacks: DOS stands for Denial of service .The aim of a DOS attack is to crash the system or shut down businesses. In this attack, the hackers use one internet connection and a single device to send a request in a continuous manner to a server so that the target server overloads the server bandwidth.
• URL Interpretation: In URL interpretation, the hackers steal the information in the URL. For example, if the URL is “example.com” and the hacker wants to go to the admin page of the URL to access the admin page, they type “http://example.com/admin.” When they successfully go to the admin page, they try to enter login details. Generally, the hacker guesses the admin username and admin password as “admin” because, in most cases, the user uses admin both as username and password. If the hacker successfully logs in, then they can easily steal and remove the data.
• Brute force attack: In this type of attack, the attackers assume login details for the target system. If they guess correctly, they hack the system. If not, in that case, they use bots to crack the login credentials and easily hack the system or device.

A cyber attack is the process of stealing a system or person’s information. In cyber attacks, the attackers hack our mobile devices and laptops, or even data present in big organizations. In this article, we will discuss how cyber attacks work and the types of cyber attacks, as well as how to protect ourselves from cyber-attacks.