List of cyber attack threat trends
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A list of cyber attack threat trends is presented in alphabetical order. These methods were used between the 1990s and 2015.[1]
- Analysis of vulnerabilities in compiled software without source code
- Anti-forensic techniques
- Automated probes and scans
- Automated widespread attacks
- Cyber-threats & bullying (not illegal in all jurisdictions)
- Distributed attack tools
- Email propagation of malicious code
- Executable code attacks (against browsers)
- Fully undetectable (FUD)
- GUI intrusion tools
- Industrial espionage
- Internet social engineering attacks
- Network sniffers
- Packet spoofing
- Session-hijacking
- Sophisticated botnet command and control attacks
- "Stealth" and other advanced scanning techniques
- Targeting of specific users
- Widespread attacks on DNS infrastructure
- Widespread attacks using NNTP to distribute attack
- Wide-scale trojan distribution
- Wide-scale use of worms
- Widespread, distributed denial-of-service attacks
- Windows-based remote access trojans (Back Orifice)
Citations and notes
- ^ p.9, Lord
References
- Lord, William T., Major General, USAF, USAF Cyberspace Command: To Fly and Fight in Cyberspace, Strategic Studies Quarterly, Fall 2008