The Biggest Cyberattacks of 2020…so far

Impact of cyber attack on your business:

The spam is unsolicited messages sent massively via email, instant messaging and other digital communication tools.

This method is generally used by advertisers because it does not incur any operating costs, except the management of their mailing lists.

Spam can also circulate in chat rooms, blogs and, more recently, during a real-time telephone conversation over the Internet (such as Skype).

A successful cyber attack can cause major damage to your business. It can affect your bottom line, as well as your business' standing and consumer trust. The impact of a security breach can be broadly divided into three categories: financial, reputational and legal.

In addition to being annoying, spam can also be used to extract sensitive information from users as well as to spread viruses and other malware.

The identity theft online is to steal personal information in order to commit fraud through your email account, as a result of shopping online or sending sensitive information such as

Identity theft can also involve the theft of someone's IP address (the unique number associated with your computer when you browse the Internet).

The goal of social media identity theft can range from a simple joke to more serious attacks aimed at humiliating or hurting the victim's social media friends.

Hackers use IP address spoofing to erase their tracks or to gain access to places that are normally closed to them.

Risks associated with shopping online include overspending or receiving items that do not match their description when paid for (or not receiving anything at all).

Because of the distance between online buyers and sellers, shopping on the Internet makes consumers vulnerable to receiving poor quality goods.

You should open emails only from trusted senders and use anti-spam filters or software (there are free anti spam software online, like Spamfence).

For example, a reputable financial institution will never ask you for very personal information by email: to find out if a request is legitimate, call your bank or visit

their website (do not click on links in an email claiming to be from a bank or credit card company).

Do not disclose information that can identify you personally (full name, age, mailing address, social insurance number, etc.) without a good reason.

Set any device with an Internet connection to stand-alone mode when you are not using it (most mobile devices have an “airplane mode” that turns off their Internet functions).

You can also help minimize risk by visiting only trusted sites.

The following sections examine these threats and provide detailed antivirus. 

Spam received by e-mail often hides an attempt to thwart any anti-spam software you may have installed.

To achieve this, spammers try to find ways to modify or disguise their messages by, for example, putting spaces between letters or replacing key letters with numbers or special

characters to prevent spam filters from breaking down. 'activate.

 Even if your anti-spam software may not always be able to detect it, you should be able to do it yourself quite easily.

They may also contain malware or be part of a “phishing” scam

Instant messaging (IM) spam is similar to spam received by email.

The main difference is that instead of focusing their efforts on bombarding your email inbox, spammers try to trick you through an IM service like Blackberry Messaging or Apple's iMessage.

Less common than email spam, IM spam is more difficult to block because there is no  specifically for spam received using instant messaging services.

Despite this, it is always possible that a computer belonging to someone on your “safe” list could be infected; that's why any weird link you receive through MI should

Spam is often found in online forums and bulletin boards, as well as in blog sections of newspaper or ezine articles.

Spammers can tackle this by posting spam messages in the form of comments ranging from simple advertisements to links to malicious websites.

It is possible to receive spam on your cell phone by email, text messages or phone calls.

Topping the list of common spam problems: You may be charged for those unsolicited text messages or have to pay precious minutes for those annoying calls.

The voice spam , or by VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), take the form of telephone calls over IP.

Although this is not yet very common, the biggest problem with this spam is that voicemail messages are on average 10 times the size of emails and therefore consume

a lot of bandwidth, which can result in significantly reduced clarity and call quality.

The frequency of telephone spam is expected to increase as sources that already send massive amounts of spam through email can easily turn their messages into VoIP spam.

If you do, you are letting the sender know that your phone, email, or IM account is active and thus ensures that you receive more unwanted messages.

The most effective way to protect yourself against email spam is to use a filtering system: you can buy some spam filters (like Spamtitan), but you can also download

When dealing with content that doesn't offer filters, like forums and comment sections, you basically have to rely on your own judgment: anything that looks like marketing, advertising, or