๐Ÿ”’ Closed ๐ŸŒ€Types of phishing attacks and most common cyber attack๐ŸŒ€

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



๐Ÿ”บ1)VISHING โ€“ done over voice calls ,voice+phishing=vishing.
๐Ÿ”บ2)SMISHING -The user is targeted by using SMS alerts.
๐Ÿ”บ3)SEARCH ENGINE PHISHING- creation of fake webpages
๐Ÿ”บ4)SPEAR PHISHING- single target/organisation is selected and sensitive information is gathered.
๐Ÿ”บ5)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.


๐Ÿ˜ˆMost common cyber attack types๐Ÿ˜ˆ

๐Ÿ”บDenial-of-service (DoS)and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)attacks

๐Ÿ”บMan-in-the-middle (MitM)attack

๐Ÿ”บPhishing and spear phishing attacks

๐Ÿ”บDrive-by attack

๐Ÿ”บPassword attack

๐Ÿ”บSQL injection attack

๐Ÿ”บCross-site scripting (XSS)attack

๐Ÿ”บEavesdropping attack

๐Ÿ”บBirthday attack

๐Ÿ”บMalware attack
 
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