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What are the Top 5 cyber attacks?

by Rhyley Bryan

What are the Top 5 cyber attacks?

5 biggest cybersecurity threats

  1. Social engineering. In 2020, almost a third of the breaches incorporated social engineering techniques, of which 90% were phishing.
  2. Ransomware.
  3. DDoS attacks.
  4. Third party software.
  5. Cloud computing vulnerabilities.

Which country is most affected by cyber attack?

CyberDB lists these countries in their top 10:

  • USA.
  • Israel.
  • Russia.
  • Canada – “The federal government of Canada isexpected to spend up to $1 billion on cybersecurity”
  • United Kingdom.
  • Malaysia.
  • China.
  • France.

What are the biggest cyber attacks in history?

The 10 Biggest Cyber Attacks In History

  1. The destruction of the Melissa Virus.
  2. Nasa Cyber Attack.
  3. The 2007 Estonia Cyber Attack.
  4. A Cyber Attack on Sony’s PlayStation Network.
  5. Adobe Cyber Attack.
  6. The 2014 Cyber Attack on Yahoo.
  7. Ukraine’s Power Grid Attack.
  8. 2017 WannaCry Ransomware Cyber Attack.

What is the name of the malware that Voodoo Bear used to target the Ukrainian power grid?

The tool used was malware known as BlackEnergy. Ukrainian government officials came out rather quickly to claim the outages were caused by a cyber attack, squarely placing blame on Russian security services.

How is Russia using cyber warfare in Ukraine?

Simon Tsipis, cyber warfare researcher at the INSS think tank reports. Russia has managed to hit almost all Ukraine government websites and it was able to take control and to put on surveillance and monitoring all the Internet and telephone communications lines, before the invasion and occupation of Crimea by its military.

What was the name of the cyberattack that hit Ukraine?

So-called KillDisk malware later destroyed parts of the grid. The resulting blackouts — the world’s first known successful cyberattack on an energy company at scale — affected about 230,000 Ukrainians for up to six hours.

Is there a war between Russia and Ukraine?

Ukraine has since then been locked in an undeclared war with Russia, one that has displaced nearly 2 million internal refugees and killed close to 10,000 Ukrainians. “Russia will never accept a sovereign, independent Ukraine. Twenty-­five years since the Soviet collapse, Russia is still sick with this imperialistic syndrome.”

Are there any cyberattacks on the United States from Russia?

U.S. News has learned of an escalating number of Russian cyberattacks in recent months as Moscow’s troops mass along their shared border. (STR/AFP via Getty Images)