What are cyber attacks? In simple terms, cyber attacks are attempts of disabling or stealing information from other computers, by gaining access to admin privileges to them. Why should businesses be worried? An average ransomware attack costs a company $5 million. Attackers target all types of businesses, small and large, healthcare, banking & finance, manufacturing, education, even government. The internet has made life a lot easier for business owners, at the same time it has made them easier to get hacked.

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An average ransomware attack costs
a company $5 million.

2. What are cyber attacks?
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In simple terms, cyber attacks are attempts of disabling or stealing information
from other computers, by gaining access to admin privileges to them.
Why should businesses be worried?
An average ransomware attack costs a company $5 million. Attackers target all
types of businesses, small and large, healthcare, banking & finance, manufacturing,
education, even government. The internet has made life a lot easier for business
owners, at the same time it has made them easier to get hacked.

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Phishing Attacks
Verizon’s 2019 Data Breach Investigation Report
revealed that 32% of data breaches involved phishing.*
Phishing is a type of social engineering where
attackers send malicious content to victim and steal
their data by enticing them to click or download it.
Spear Phishing Attack
Spear phishing is an attack
aimed at a particular individual
or organization
Whale Phishing Attack
A whale phishing attack is a type of
phishing that centers on high-profile
employees such as the CFO or CEO.
* https://enterprise.verizon.com/resources/reports/dbir/

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Malware Attacks
It is estimated that 350,000 new variants of malware
are discovered every day.*
Malware is a code that is made to stealthily affect a
compromised computer system without the consent of
the user.
Ransomware
Ransomware blocks access to a
victims data, typically threating
delete it if a ransom is paid.
Trojan Horses
A Trojan is a malicious software pro-
gram that misrepresents itself to
appear useful.
Drive By Attacks
A cyber attacker looks for an insecure
website and plants a malicious script
into PHP or HTTP in one of the pages.
* https://www.av-test.org/en/statistics/malware/

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Denial of Service Attack
A denial of service attack is a brute force method to try
stop some online service from working properly. A
distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack uses an
army of computers, usually compromised by malware
and under the control of cybercriminals, to funnel the
traffic towards the targets.
In order to take revenge or distract organization while
attackers exploit other vulnerabilities, a denial of
service attack in launched.

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Man in the Middle Attack
In this attack, an attacker intrudes the communication
without the knowledge to both the parties. The
attacker then gains access to their data and
manipulates the communication.
During World War II, British intelligence conducted
MITM attacks against Nazi forces using Aspidistra
devices. Cracking of the Enigma code could also be
considered a MITM attack.

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Zero Day Attacks
A zero day attack stands for outdated or unpatched
software contain vulnerabilities that can be exploited
by the attackers. Vulnerability is made public before a
patch, or an update is rolled out by the developer.
76% of successful attacks on organization endpoints
were zero-day*
* https://votiro.com/2018-the-four-zero-day-attack-stats-and-trends-you-need-to-know/

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SQL Injections
A SQL injection is an attack performed by executing a query to
the database. The attacker inserts malicious code into a
website that uses SQL as a database.
Password Attacks
A password attack simply means an attempt to decrypt or obtain a user’s
password with illegal intentions. Crackers can use password sniffers,
dictionary attacks, and cracking programs in password attacks.

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AI Powered Attacks
The concept of a computer program learning by itself, building
knowledge, and getting more sophisticated may be scary.
Artificial intelligence can be easily dismissed as another tech
buzzword. However, it is already being employed in everyday
applications through an algorithmic process referred to as
machine learning. Machine learning software is aimed at
training a computer to perform particular tasks on its own.

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