Example of cybercrime.
Different types of computer threats are associated with various types of damaging effects.
For example, some threats may damage or corrupt your installed operating system and force you to reinstall
it.
Another type may steal your credentials and saved passwords.
Still, other threats may not bring any harm to your PC.
Instead, they will track your online activities and invade your privacy.
Today, criminals are smarter than ever before, and malicious programs are more sophisticated.
Modern malware can infect a target computing device and remain undetected for a long time.
The motive behind the majority of cyber attacks nowadays is not to damage your machine, but instead
to steal your money, to access your private information or to acquire your logon credentials.
Similar to traditional crime, cybercrime can be grouped into various categories according to the malicious
actor's objected for applying it.
The following are the most common forms of cybercrime malware distribution.
Malware is short for malicious software and is any software employed to bring damage to computing devices,
computers, smartphones, etcetera, or the stored content data or applications?
Malware corruption can manifest in different ways, such as formatting your hard disk, deleting or
corrupting files, stealing, saved login information, gathering sensitive information, your files
and private photos, or simply displaying unwanted advertisements on your screen.
Many malware variants are stealthy and operate silently without the user's knowledge or awareness.
Malware is a term used to refer to many types of malicious software, such as computer viruses, worms,
Trojan horses, spyware, Ransomware, rootkit.
Scareware and adware.
Ransomware Distribution.
Ransomware is computer malware that installs silently on the user's machine.
Its objective is to deny access to user files, sometimes encrypting the entire hard drive HD and even
all the attached external drives and connected cloud storage accounts.
It then demands that the user pay a ransom to get the malware creator to remove the restriction so the
user can regain access to the system and stored assets.
Cryptojacking.
This is a piece of code usually written in JavaScript that infects your computer silently via a web
browser to mine cryptocurrencies.
As the cryptocurrency wave is on the rise, more cybercriminals are using such techniques for commercial
gain using other people's computers without their knowledge.
This attack consumes much of the target computer's CPU.
Hacking Hacking is the process of invading your privacy by gaining unauthorized access to your computing
device or internal network.
Hackers usually scan your machines for vulnerabilities such as unpatched windows updates and gain access
through them.
After gaining access, they may install a keylogger or a Trojan horse to maintain their access to begin
stealing information or to spy on user activities.
SQL injections.
This is a hacking technique that allows hackers to attack the security vulnerabilities of the database
that runs a website.
An attacker enters SQL code into target website web forms and executes it to force the back end database
of the website to release confidential information to the attacker.
You speed farming.
This is a cyber attack intended to redirect users from a legitimate website to a fraudulent site without
their knowledge.
The end goal is usually to infect the target computer with a malware.
Phishing phishing messages come in different shapes, such as SMS messages, emails and web site links,
URLs, all of which are designed to look genuine and use the same format as the legitimate company they
pretend to be.
Phishing aims to collect user sensitive details such as banking information, login credentials and
credit card info by tricking the end user into handing the information to the attacker.
Email bombing and spamming.
Email bombing occurs when an intruder or a group of intruders sends a large volume of emails to a target
server or target email account making it crash.
Spam is unsolicited email that usually sent to a large number of users for commercial purposes showing
ads or promotions.
However, many spam emails contain disguised links that can lead the victim to phishing websites or
to malicious websites hosting malware to further infect the user's machine.
Identity theft.
Identity theft is stealing personal information about people and using it in an illegal context.
Cyberstalking.
This is an invasion of the user's privacy.
It works when an intruder follows a target person's online activity and tries to harass slash threaten
him or her using verbal intimidation via email, chat services and social media.
The wide reach of social media sites and the vast amount of personal details available publicly make
cyberstalking a major problem in today's digital age.
Using Internet network Illegally.
Spreading illegal contents and selling illegal services and products.
Example include spreading hate and inciting terrorism and selling drugs and weapons, especially in
the darknet market.
DDoS attacks.
A DDoS attack is an attempt to make an online service unavailable by overwhelming it with traffic from
multiple sources.
Attackers build networks of infected computers, which could be millions of machines known as botnets
by spreading malicious software through emails, websites and social media.
Once infected, these machines can be controlled remotely by a bot master without their owner's knowledge
and used like an army to launch an attack against any target.
Social Engineering.
Social engineering is a kind of attack that uses psychological tricks, social tricks over the phone,
or uses a computing device to convince someone to hand over sensitive information about himself or herself
or about an organization and its computer systems.
Software piracy.
This is the unauthorized use, downloading and distribution of pirated material like movies, games,
software, songs, books and other intellectual property products.
Cybercrimes could be conducted by either one person or a group of organized criminals.
The latter is more dangerous as it has the resources to conduct and develop sophisticated attacks against
target organizations and individuals.