Differences of Data Interception and Data Theft
As a cybersecurity researcher (HACKER) it is important to have clear idea about main concepts of security world. Why? Because you can solve a challenge, only if you understand the question.
Data interception
Interception happens when an attacker intercepts data in transit between computers. The person receiving the data may be able to misuse it if it’s not adequately encrypted.
For example, a man-in-the-middle attack is one of the special types of interception. In this sort of attack, the interceptor proxies the information between the sender and the destination in order to conceal the fact that the data is being intercepted.
Data Theft
Most cyber-attacks include the theft of the victim’s personal information. The attacker may also wish to steal data from people, companies, or government agencies for a variety of reasons.
How Data breaches take place?
Malwares are the main means of hackers to do breach the data. Crowdsourced Cybersecurity platforms have different plans to reduce the risk of data breaches. We can categorize all these plans into the two main types:
- Offensive: Security researchers try to find platforms’ bug by executing virtual cyber-attacks.
- Defensive: Security researcher consider a platform as haunted system, so they try to haunt threats.
Types of malwares, poisonings and malvertising
Malware, also referred to as malicious software, is a broad word for software that intentionally causes harm to people who are unaware that they are using it.
Malware includes computer viruses, worms, Trojans, ransomware, scare ware, spyware, crypto currency miners, adware, and other programs designed to steal computer resources.
Poisoned Web Service Attacks
Many different types of attacks exploit server weaknesses, and new problems are continuously being found, which is why cybersecurity specialists work full-time to keep servers safe.
It is necessary that you know the fundamental concepts of server-based cyberattacks, since some of them can have a direct influence on you.
Network Infrastructure Poisoning
Most different sorts of attacks, like those against web servers, take advantage of vulnerabilities in network infrastructure, and new flaws are constantly discovered.
For example, criminals could exploit various defects to add incorrect domain name system (DNS) information to a DNS server.
Malvertising
Is an abbreviation for “malicious advertising”. It refers to the use of online ads to distribute malware or launch other types of cyber attacks.
Online advertising is a perfect vehicle for attackers because many websites show advertising that is served and controlled by third-party networks and contains links to many other third parties.
Malvertising enables cyber criminals to reach a wide audience without trying to hack anything. Most of malvertising needs users to click on the adverts in order to be infected with malware.
Understanding Exploiting Maintenance Difficulties
Maintaining computer systems is not a simple process. Software vendors frequently release updates that many of them may have an effect on other programs in system. Some updates, on the other hand, are absolutely necessary to be installed in a timely manner because they fix bugs in software — bugs that may introduce exploitable vulnerabilities.
Finding out about different kinds of advanced cyber attacks
let’s look at three different types of advanced attacks:
Advanced attacks might be opportunistic, targeted, or a combination of the two.
Opportunistic attacks are attacks aimed at as many possible goals as possible in order to find some that are vulnerable to the attack that was launched. These attacks are like someone shooting a shotgun into an area with many objectives in the hopes that one or more pellets will hit a target that can be penetrated.
Targeted attacks are assaults that are pointed at a specific party and generally entail the use of a number of attack methods until one eventually succeeds in penetrating the target.
