What Are the Most Common Types of Malware Attacks? 1. Adware Adware — commonly called “spam” — is unwanted or malicious advertising installed on an endpoint. While relatively harmless, it can be irritating, as adware can hamper your computer’s performance. In addition, these ads may lead...
Between October 2020 and September 2021, Backdoor was the most common type of malware attack worldwide. Cyber attacks of this group amounted to 37 percent of all detected malware attacks in the measured period. Downloader ranked second, with 17 percent, while Worm followed with 16 percent among...
SQL injection attacks are one of the most common web attacks of the past ten years and allow attackers to compromise a server's cookies, web forms, or HTTP posts to manipulate data out of the database. They exploit input fields (like those you'd see in an online form) and ...
6. Malware Malware is a sort of umbrella term that describes a diverse sort of software. What they all have in common, though, is their purpose. Their general goals are to, in some way,disrupt, manipulate, or damage a database or system. To these ends, hackers will utilize an array o...
2. Malware As you’ve seen, malware is often part of the phishing technique too. However, it can work without the “social engineering” factor if the user is naive enough (he usually is). Two of the most common malware types for stealing passwords are keyloggers and screen scrapers. As...
Now that there are more Macs, virus attacks are expected to happen. That’s why Macs are now vulnerable to viruses, malware, phishing scams, and other web threats of virtually every kind. They’ve become easier to attack and compromise as time goes by. Common viruses targeting your Mac ...
A DDoS attack is initiated by a vast array of malware-infected host machines controlled by the attacker. These are referred to as “denial of service” attacks because the victim site is unable to provide service to those who want to access it. With a DoS attack, the target site gets ...
Pony can also be used in more sophisticated attacks that combine several different kinds of malware. One common technique involves attackers using phishing techniques to trick users into downloading Pony. Once Pony is on the system, it is then used to downloadVawtrak, which can mount further banki...
In 2014, SQL injections, a type of application attack, were responsible for 8.1 percent of all data breaches. That makes it the third most used type of attack, behind malware and distributed denial-of-service attacks. You will also find on the list other common application attacks such as ...
Coveware’s analysis shows that in the final quarter of 2020, more than 50% of ransomware attacks started with a phishing email. Ransomware can be delivered directly through phishing emails, although it is more common to use intermediary malware. The most commonly used malware variants for ...