cyberattack
any attempt to expose, alter, disable, destroy, steal or gain unauthorized access to or make unauthorized use of a computer system
session fixation
Cyberattack allowing one person to know another person’s session identifier
In-session phishing
type of phishing attack
Operation Olympic Games
Israeli-American collaboration sabotage campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities
inference attack
data mining technique
Flight information screens in Vietnam airports hacked
cyberattacks on Vietnam Airlines in 2016
denial-of-service attack
cyber attack disrupting service by overloading the provider of the service
man-on-the-side attack
Form of message tampering
exploit
software, data or commands that use a bug or vulnerability to compromise a computer system
phishing
attempt to trick a person into revealing information
cyber espionage
act of obtaining secrets and information using methods on the Internet, networks or individual computers
spoofing attack
cyber attack in which a person or program successfully masquerades as another by falsifying data
cryptographic attack
attack aimed at circumventing the security of a cryptographic system
Office of Personnel Management data breach
cyberattack stealing 20 million federal personnel records
cache poisoning
attack in which invalid entiries are placed into a cache
data scraping
data extraction technique
Operation Aurora
Series of cyberattacks conducted by Chinese threat actors
Operation Payback
Series of cyberattacks conducted by Anonymous
information diving
practice of recovering technical data, sometimes confidential or secret, from discarded material
Sybil attack
attack done by multiple fake identities
Operation High Roller
global cyber attack in the banking system
page hijacking
compromising a web page to redirect users to a malicious web site or an exploit kit
Sony Pictures hack
2014 North Korean cyberattack on Sony Pictures and subsequent document leak
AI training data poisoning
Adding, modifying, or labeling data so as to reduce the quality of AI model outputs, censor subjects, advertise products, enable control, sustain vulnerabilities, facilitate problematic outputs, or other malicious purposes
broadcast storm
extreme accumulation of broadcast and multicast traffic on a computer network
replay attack
network attack in which a valid data transmission is maliciously or fraudulently repeated or delayed, carried out either by the originator or by an adversary who intercepts the data and retransmits it
supply chain attack
cyber-attack that seeks to damage an organization by targeting less-secure elements in the supply network
watering hole attack
Computer attack strategy
Operation Tunisia
serues of cyberattacks by Anonymous
KRACK
attack on the Wi-Fi Protected Access protocol
evil maid attack
computer security attack on an unattended device, in which an attacker with physical access alters it in some undetectable way so that they can later access the device, or the data on it
dusting attack
attack on cryptocurrency wallet
Operation Triangulation
cyberattack on iOS devices, discovered 2023
cheat
combination that allows the player an unintended advantage in a video game
Titan Rain
series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems
website breach
successful cyberattack event in which protected information is accessed by an unauthorized party
Nitro Zeus
project name for a comprehensive cyber attack plan created as a mitigation strategy after the Stuxnet malware campaign and its aftermath
Sniffing attack
theft of data by using a packet sniffer
Multi-factor authentication fatigue attack
Computer security attack