Fake emails or messages designed to steal credentials or trick users into clicking malicious links.
Effect: Identity theft, financial fraud, and unauthorized system access.
Malicious software that encrypts files and demands payment for their release.
Effect: Business disruption, data loss, and financial damage.
Flooding a server or network with traffic to make services unavailable.
Effect: Downtime, revenue loss, reputational harm.
Attackers intercept communication between two parties to steal or alter data.
Effect: Compromised communications, financial fraud, espionage.
Injecting malicious queries into databases or exploiting app vulnerabilities.
Effect: Data theft, unauthorized changes, regulatory violations.
Employees or contractors misusing access—maliciously or accidentally.
Effect: Data leakage, sabotage, compliance failures.
Attacks that target vulnerabilities before patches exist.
Effect: High-risk data breaches, systemic compromise.
Ensuring sensitive information is only accessible to authorized individuals.
Protecting data from being altered or tampered with.
Guaranteeing systems and data are accessible when needed.
