What Kind Of Cyber Attacks Are There?

1. Denial of Service (DoS) Attacks: A type of cyber attack that attempts to make a machine or network resource unavailable to its intended users by temporarily or permanently disrupting services of a host connected to the Internet.

2. Malware Attacks: Malicious software (malware) is any program or file that is harmful to a computer user. Examples of malware include viruses, worms, Trojan horses, ransomware, spyware, adware, and scareware.

3. Phishing Attacks: Phishing is a type of social engineering attack often used to steal user data, including login credentials and credit card numbers. It occurs when an attacker, masquerading as a trusted entity, dupes a victim into opening an email, instant message, or text message.

4. SQL Injection Attacks: SQL injection is a type of attack that exploits a security vulnerability in a website’s software. The vulnerability is present when user input is either incorrectly filtered for string literal escape characters embedded in SQL statements or user input is not strongly typed.

5. Man-in-the-Middle Attacks: A man-in-the-middle attack (MITM) is a type of cyber attack where a malicious actor inserts him/herself into a conversation between two parties, impersonates both parties and gains access to information that the two parties were trying to send to each other.

6. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks: A distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack is a type of cyberattack that uses multiple compromised computer systems to attack a single target, such as a server, website or other network resource. The flood of incoming messages, requests or connection attempts to the target sy