Hackers and cyber thugs are laying various types of traps to trap common people. However, for some time now, Internet users have become aware of suspicious links in emails and messages. In this case, hackers have started adopting new methods to attract users towards such links with viruses.
What is trapping in cyber security?
On social media platforms, users often share news articles and links to various other sites. Cyber criminals are now trying to trap people using this method.
Amnesty International's security lab has mentioned this new trick of hackers in its report.
What is the most common method used by cyber criminals?
Phishing: Here are the 10 most popular methods | Cyber Insights
Phishing: The most popular scam of cybercriminals. The methods used by cybercriminals are becoming more and more advanced and are causing more damage to victims every year. One well-known and increasingly popular method used by attackers is phishing.
According to the report, hackers are embedding suspicious links through comments on platforms such as X and Meta. These links are so dangerous that any user's device can be taken over by a hacker with just one click.
What are the tools for cyber terrorism?
Acts of deliberate, large-scale disruption of computer networks, especially of personal computers attached to the Internet by means of tools such as computer viruses, computer worms, phishing, malicious software, hardware methods, programming scripts can all be forms of internet terrorism.
Sometimes when interested in who has reacted to a post on social media, the comment section is also scrolled. In this case, if you mistakenly click on such links placed as comments, it can be very risky. By clicking on such links, not only your device will be hacked, but your personal data and confidential information will also fall into the hands of hackers.
One such X account has been seen promoting questionable links. An X account named @Joseph_Gordon16 is constantly sharing suspicious links as replies to other users' posts.
What are the tools and methods used in cybercrime in cyber security?
Tools and methods used in cyber crime-Proxy servers and Anonymizers- Phishing Password cracking- Key loggers and Spy wares-Virus and worms-Trojan Horse and Backdoors-Steganography-SQL Injection-Buffer overflow-Attacks on wireless network.
This trick of the hacker is not limited to this. The URLs shared by these cybercriminals also look like the URLs of real websites. Because of this, normal users can click on the link as if it is a real site.
What are four ways system can be cyber attacked?
Malware or Malicious software is the term that encompasses various types of attacks including spyware, viruses, and worms. Malware uses a vulnerability to breach a network when a user clicks a “planted” dangerous link or email attachment, which is used to install malicious software inside the system.
