What are the common cyberattacks?

 

What are the common cyberattacks?

A cyberattack is any kind of offensive strategy used by individuals or entire organizations that specifically targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices through various means of malicious acts that typically come from an unidentified source and either steal, alter, or destroy a targeted object by hacking into an exposed system. A targeted target may be stolen, altered, or destroyed by a cyberattack that infiltrates a weak system. 

Cyberattacks can involve anything from infiltrating a person's computer with spyware to attempting to take out a whole country's infrastructure. To differentiate it from more commonplace data breaches and larger hacking efforts, legal experts are working to restrict the term's use to occurrences that result in physical harm.

Cyberwarfare employs methods for protecting against and attacking computer networks and information in cyberspace, frequently through a protracted cyber campaign or series of connected campaigns. By using technological weapons of war to attack an opponent's vital computer systems, it prevents them from doing the same. The use of computer network technologies to shut down crucial national infrastructures or to intimidate or compel a government or civilian population is known as cyberterrorism, on the other hand.