Since the days of the launch of the first virus “Creeper” developed by Bob Thomas in 1971, the digital world has never been at rest. Cyber attacks have become increasingly sophisticated, utilizing advanced techniques such as artificial intelligence and machine learning to bypass traditional security measures, and the motives have evolved from fun to financial extortion and in extreme cases, can even put human lives in danger.
Here is a brief summary of the 15 most common cyber attacks that were prevalent in last two years:
- Ransomware Attacks
- Phishing attacks
- Business Email Compromise (BEC)
- Man-in-the-middle attacks
- Denial of Service attacks
- SQL injection attacks
- Zero-day exploits
- Session hijacking
- Password attacks
- Drive-by download attacks
- Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
- DNS spoofing
- URL manipulation
- Cryptojacking
- Internet of Things (IoT) attacks
