🔒 Closed 🌀Types of phishing attacks and most common cyber attack🌀

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These are the most common phishing attacks and cyber attack types:



🔺1)VISHING – done over voice calls ,voice+phishing=vishing.
🔺2)SMISHING -The user is targeted by using SMS alerts.
🔺3)SEARCH ENGINE PHISHING- creation of fake webpages
🔺4)SPEAR PHISHING- single target/organisation is selected and sensitive information is gathered.
🔺5)WHALING-targeting big players: like CEO,COO,MANAGERS in ORGANISATIONS.
Technology, banking, and healthcare are the most targeted sectors for phishing attacks. This is because of two main factors: a huge number of users and higher dependency on data.


😈Most common cyber attack types😈

🔺Denial-of-service (DoS)and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)attacks

🔺Man-in-the-middle (MitM)attack

🔺Phishing and spear phishing attacks

🔺Drive-by attack

🔺Password attack

🔺SQL injection attack

🔺Cross-site scripting (XSS)attack

🔺Eavesdropping attack

🔺Birthday attack

🔺Malware attack
 
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