Top 50 Security Threats | CyberNcrypt
Effective data security, in the most obvious sense, ensures the safety of our financial assets, protects individual privacy, and ensures the integrity of our systems and infrastructure. However, in a broader and less direct sense, security is the critical first ingredient in our evolution as a global society.
Security threats are malicious acts committed with the intent of corrupting or stealing data or disrupting an organization’s systems or the entire organization. Enterprise IT must remain vigilant in protecting their data and networks as security threats evolve and become more sophisticated. To do so, they must first understand the types of security threats they face.
The top 50 information security threats that IT teams should be aware of are listed below.
- Account Takeover
- Advanced Persistent Threat
- Application Access Token
- Bill Fraud
- Business Invoice Fraud
- Brute Force Attack
- Compromised Credentials
- Credential Dumping
- Credential Reuse Attack
- Credential Stuffing
- Cloud Access Management
- Cloud Cryptomining
- Command and Control
- Cross-Site Scripting
- Cryptojacking Attack
- Data From Information Repositories
- DoS Attack
- DDoS Attack
- Disabling Security Tools
- DNS Amplification
- DNS Hijacking
- DNS Tunneling
- Drive-by Download Attack
- Host Redirection
- Insider Threat
- IoT Threats
- IoMT Threats
- Macro Viruses
- Malicious Powershell
- Man-in-the-Middle Attack
- Masquerade Attack
- Meltdown and Spectre Attack
- Network Sniffing
- Pass the Hash
- Phishing
- Phishing Payloads
- Ransomware
- Shadow IT
- SIM jacking
- Social Engineering Attack
- SQL Injection
- Spear Phishing
- Spyware
- System Misconfiguration
- Typosquatting
- Watering Hole Attack
- Web Session Cookie
- Whale Phishing
- Wire Attack
- Zero Day Exploit
All of these threats will be covered in future articles.
