Cyber threats
Understand how threat actors exploit vulnerabilities. Protect your business with expert tips and effective cyber-attack prevention strategies.
What is an evil twin attack?
Imagine this: you’re at your favorite café, catching up on emails. You spot a Wi-Fi network with the same name as the one you...
What is a DDoS attack?
DDoS attacks overwhelm targets with massive DNS, HTTP, UDP, ICMP, and other protocol traffic. In worst-case scenarios, networ...
What is URL phishing?
URL phishers try to redirect web users from legitimate websites to malicious imposters. Skilled phishers can imitate governme...
What is a backdoor attack?
Investing in complex security measures is ineffective if cybercriminals can access the network via a backdoor attack. Backdoo...
What is spear phishing?
Experts estimate that criminals send 3.4 billion phishing emails daily, while over 90% of successful cyberattacks originate f...
What is a Smurf attack?
Smurf attacks can devastate network performance and cripple websites for days. In these DDoS attacks, extended botnets, broad...
What is cryptojacking?
Cryptojacking is one of the fastest-growing cyber threats around. Recorded cases rose by 659 percent in 2023-24 as criminals ...
What is ARP poisoning?
In modern networking, the protocols that enable communication can also become vulnerabilities. The Address Resolution Protoco...
What is typosquatting?
We expect websites to be what they claim to be, but domain names can sometimes deceive. A simple spelling error or misplaced ...
What is cookie theft?
A sales executive at a logistics firm opens a “sponsorship agreement” from a contact while on coffee shop Wi-Fi. The attachme...
Man-in-the-browser attack
The website looks perfect, the URL is correct, and the address bar shows the padlock indicator: the connection uses HTTPS. A ...
What is a brute-force attack?
Strong passwords should be the standard by now—and yet somehow “123456,” “qwerty,” and “iloveyou” still top the lists of the ...