Answer to Question #247642 in Computer Networks for Piento

Question

Briefly describe any five types of Network/ Cyberattacks faced by individuals and organisations around the world, and provide recommendations on how to prevent each of the attacks discussed

Answer 1

The top 5 attacks happen recently in the first quarter of 2021 which affects the business -

Solar Wind attacks:

Recently united state faced this kind of attack which as massively reported by Microsoft, NATO and the government of united kingdom. there was approximately 200 companies was involved.

Attacks on India's CoWIN app:

In 2021, during the pandemic, india was trying to find a way to come out of the pandemic by using the Aarogya setu app. At the same time, the cyber criminal was trying to misguiding the tricking to the user and downloading the fake app. Quick Heal reported this issue of creation of the fake app by the malware and the author of the malware planting the app to the end users.

Blank Kingdom Ransomware targets Microsoft exchange servers:

It attacked approx 1500 Microsoft Exchange Server in which a chines sponsored group targeted a flaw in Microsoft Exchange Servers.

LinkedIn Phishing Scan:

It is one of the world's popular social media which is used by the 756 million people world wide. The target to scrap the data approx 500 million linkedIn users.

Cyber attack on Air India:

In 2021, the data of the million's customer of Indian Airlines was hacked for the personal and sensitive information was theft by the attacker such as passport number, credit card number etc