Session 06: Cyber Attacks

Question 1

What are the types of cyber attacks?

Answer 1

1. DNS Tunneling
2. DoS and DDoS
3. Man in the middle
4. Phishing
5. Ransomware
6. SQL Injection
7. XSS
8. Malware
9. Session Hijacking

Question 2

Famous cyber attacks

Answer 2

1. Russian/Ukraine conflict
2. Apache Log4j Vulnerability
3. SolarWinds Sunburst attack
4. Kaseya Ransomware attack
5. Amazon DDoS attack
6. Microsoft Exchange Remote Code Execution Attack
7. Twitter Celebrities Attack

Question 3

DNS Tunneling

Answer 3

Hackers implant harmful code or software within what seems like a DNS request

Question 4

DoS and DDoS

Answer 4

Denial of Service / Distributed Denial of Service
Overwhelm a system’s resources until it can no longer respond to legitimate service requests.

Question 5

Man-in-the-middle

Answer 5

Allow an attacker to intercept data exchange between two people, network or computers.

Question 6

Phishing

Answer 6

Sends an email that appears to come from a trusted and legitimate source in a attempt to obtain sensitive information from a target.

Question 7

Ransomware

Answer 7

Victim’s system or data is held hostage until the victim agrees to pay the attacker a ransom.

Question 8

SQL Injection

Answer 8

Use SQL queries sent from the client to a database on the server. Commands are inserted or injected into the data plane.

Question 9

XSS

Answer 9

Cros Site Scription
Send malicious scripts with clickable content to the target browser. Once the victim clicks on the content, the script will be executed.

Question 10

Malware

Answer 10

Enters network through vulnerabilities when users click on unsafe links or email attachments to install unsafe software.

Question 11

Session Hijacking

Answer 11

One of many types of MITM attacks. Attacker hijacks the session between the client and server.