Cybercriminals can have various motivations when launching cyber attacks. Some carry out attacks for personal or financial gain. Others are “hacktivists” acting in the name of social or political causes. Some attacks are part of cyberwarfare operations conducted by nation states against their oppone...
Small firms are particularly vulnerable to backdoor attacks because they don’t have big financial resources to safeguard their computer or identify successful attacks. That is why more than 40% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses. Unlike other malware like RAM scrapers, backdoors aren’t...
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On June 27, 2017, a major global cyber-attack utilized a new variant of Petya. Kaspersky reported attacks on more than 80 companies, with 80% of all infections happening in Ukraine, while Germany was the second hardest-hit country with about 9%. The U.S. government estimates that the tot...
It began attacking organizations worldwide in August 2020 and, like other similar threats utilized in targeted cyberattacks, DarkSide not only encrypts the victim’s data but also exfiltrates it from the impacted servers.In just 9 months of operations, at least $90 million in Bitcoin ransom ...
Flood attacks—most modern flood attacks are DDoS attacks, which leverage a botnet to hit a website or organization with massive amounts of fake traffic. Flood attacks can be targeted at the network layer, choking an organization’s bandwidth and server resources, or at the application layer, ...
Here are several well-publicized examples of cyber warfare in recent times. Stuxnet Virus Stuxnet was a worm that attacked the Iranian nuclear program. It is among the most sophisticated cyber attacks in history. Themalwarespread viainfectedUniversal Serial Bus devices and targeted data acquisition an...
Cybercriminals who conduct targeted attacks are better to be named Threat Actors. How do Cybercrimes happen? Cybercriminals take advantage of security holes and vulnerabilities found in systems and exploit them in order to take a foothold inside the targeted environment. The security holes can be...
They’re constantly being targeted by cyber attacks. Missteps caused by their lack of knowledge could lead to disruption, loss and long-term damage. This e-book explores real-world cyber attack examples and five major categories that began with—or hinged on—compromising users. You'll learn...
Cyberbullying has gotten a great deal of press, particularly when young victims attempt to harm themselves or commit suicide in response. It's not limited to the Internet and social media sites, although attacks in this venue are common, Messages might come via text or through apps. They migh...