Types of Cybersecurity Threats

The process of being up to date with the new technologies, security trends and threat intelligence is a crucial task. It is imperative that in order to protect information and other properties from cyber threats, which have many forms, one must know the types of cyber threats such as:

• Malware is a type of malicious software wherein file or program can be utilized to cause harm to a computer user;
• Ransomware is another form of malware that involves an attacker locking the user’s computer system files via encryption and demanding a payment to unlock them;
• Social engineering is a form of attack that depends on human relationship to trick users into breaching the security processes to have sensitive information

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