Eight Common Cyber Threats

Cyber crimes have increase rapidly over the past years. These cyber hackers send threat to individuals, small businesses, officials and government networks to activate personal information and company's data. Cyber activities can cause great dangers to companies and individual in the future.


According to (www. national crime agency.gov.uk/crime-threats/cyber-crime),

Consumers:

·         Phishing: is an attempt that hackers use in the form of an email that poses as a legitimate company to acquired personal information.

·         Webcam manager: where criminals takeover you webcam.

·         File hackers: are criminals that hijack files and hold them to ransom.

·         Key loggers: are criminals that monitor and record all keystrokes you type- such as passwords and relay them to other security threats.

·         Screenshot manager: allows hackers to take screenshots of your computer screens.

·         Ad Clicker: allows hackers to direct a victim’s computer to click a specific link.

Business:

·         Hacking: are hobbyists who experiment with programs to maximize performance and attack weaknesses.

·         Distributed Denial of Services (DDOS): is an attack where multiple compromised systems are used to target a single system causing a DOS attack. (www.webopedia.com)