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○ What is cyber attack ?
- It is attack in which computer networks are attacked attempt by any hacker group for expose or stealf sensitive information or database which is important for country or a placed where attack is performed.
□Types of Cyber Attack
There are 7 types of cyber attack .
● Malware
● phishing
● Man-in-the-middle-attack
● SQL injection
● Zero day exploit
● DNS tunneling
Now, there are some most dangerous cyber attack which gives harm to many countries .
Top cyber attack
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 1. The Original Logic Bomb
During the cold war in 1982, the CIA found a way to disrupt the operation of a Siberian gas pipeline of Russia without using traditional explosive devices such as missiles or bombs.
Instead, they caused the Siberian gas pipeline to explode using a portion of a code in the computer system that controls its operation in what they tagged as “logic bomb.”
The chaos that ensued was so monumental that the resulting fire was even seen from space.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history -2. Titan Rain
In 2004, Shawn Carpenter discovered a series of coordinated ‘cyber raids’, in what the FBI believed to originated from government-supported cells in China.
Dubbed as ‘Titan Rain,’ hackers were able to infiltrate several computer networks including those at NASA and the Lockheed Martin, Redstone Arsenal, and Sandia National Laboratories.
Considered as one of the biggest cyber attacks in history, these acts posed the dangers of not only making off with military intelligence and classified data, but also paved the way for other hackers and espionage entities to infiltrate these.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 3. Moonlight Maze
One of the earliest forms of major infiltration where hackers penetrated American computer systems at will; Moonlight Maze was an accidental discovery made by the US officials and was believed to be conceived by the Russians although they denied their involvement.
In this cyber attack, hackers targeted military maps and schematics and other US troop configurations from the Pentagon
The Department of Energy, NASA and various universities and research labs in unremitting attacks that was discovered in March 1988, but had been going on for nearly two years.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 4. Epsilon
One of the costliest cyber attacks in history, the data breach in Epsilon
The world’s largest provider of marketing and handling services to industry giants such as JP Morgan Chase,
Best Buy, and other major financial services,
Retailers and other major companies in 2011, has an estimated damage cost that ranged from $225 million to $4 billion dollars.
The targets of the hackers were email addresses that they can use for their criminal activities, making its implications a lot greater than estimated.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 5. The Estonian Cyber war
The government of Estonia was subjected to cyber terrorism on April 27, 2007 by the Nashi,
A pro-Kremlin group from Transnistria.
One of the largest after Titan Rain,
They employed a number of techniques such as ping floods and botnets to penetrate and take down key government websites rendering them useless.
Their method was so complicated that the Estonian government believed that they might have had aids from the Russian government.
What triggered these attacks was an important icon to the Russian people,
The Bronze Soldier of Tallinn, an elaborate Soviet-era war grave marker and the war graves that were relocated by the Estonian government.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 6. Sony
In 2011, 77 millions of Playstation Network and Sony Online Entertainment accounts,
Including credit and debit card information users were stolen by an unknown group of cyber hackers.
The outage from external intrusion has an estimated damage at $1 to $2 billion dollars;
And the worst thing that can happen to dedicated gamers happened,
Where hackers were able to log on even when the company was trying to fix the
breach, which lasted for 24 days.
Top Most Dangerous Cyber Attack in history - 7.Presidential-Level Espionage
During the 2008 presidency run, suspected hackers from China or Russia attacked the computer systems used in the campaigns of both Barrack Obama and John McCain,
Which include emails and sensitive data used in the campaign.
Because of the breach, the FBI confiscated all the computers and all the electronic devices;
While a lot of people hoped that the FBI will keep secret all the things they might dug up during the campaign trail.
8.Michael Calce
Michael Demon Calce from West Island, Quebec is just an ordinary 15-year-old,
But in the cyberspace; he is very famous as ‘MafiaBoy.’
He gained notoriety in the year 2000 for hacking companies with high-level of securities,
Which include computer giant Dell, Yahoo, Fifa.com, Amazon, Ebay and CNN with estimated damages of $1.2 billion dollars, not including his attacks in 9 out of 13 root name servers.
However, he only received eight months of ‘open custody,’ one year of probation, a small fine and restricted use of internet by the Montreal Youth Court.
9.Sven Jaschan
Sven Jaschan, a German college student who confessed as the author of Netsky worms and Sasser computer worms,
Has unleashed a virus in 2004 on his 18th birthday that has resounding effects all around the world.
Though the estimated damage was pegged at $500 million dollars, experts believed that it could have been more as it disabled the Delta Air Lines’ computer system and resulted in a number of cancellations of several transatlantic flights.
Microsoft placed a $250,000 bounty on his head. He was captured after a three-month manhunt operation.
10.TJX
TJX, a Massachusetts-based retailing company and owner of TJ Maxx and Marshalls, was just one of the many retailer companies hacked by Albert Gonzales and a group of hackers from the Shadowcrew.
They were able to siphon 45 million credit and debit card information,
Which they used to fund their million-dollar shopping spree of electronic goods from Wal-Mart.
The data breach has resulted in $250 million in damages as Gonzales and 10 of his crew seek their targets while wardriving and looking for vulnerabilities in wireless networks along US Route 1 in Miami.
11.Operation Shady Rat
An ongoing series of cyber attacks that started in mid-2006,
Operation Shady Rat have hit at least 72 organizations worldwide including the International Olympic Committee,
The United Nations, businesses, and defense contractors. Discovered by Dmitri Alperovitch, Vice President of Threat Research of McAfee in 2011,
It was assumed that the People’s Republic of China was behind this.
The 172 was derived from the common security industry acronym for Remote Access Tool (RAT) and was behind the cyber attack on the 2008 Summer Olympics.
12.Hannaford Bros
In 2007, Hannaford Bros, a grocery retailer, suffered a four-month long breach wherein over 4.2 million credit and debit card numbers and other sensitive data were stolen by a group of hackers that installed malware on the stores’ servers, instead of the company’s databases.
This was masterminded by Albert Gonzales, who also hacked TJX, Heartland Payment Systems, BJ’s Wholesale Club, Barnes & Noble, DSW, Boston Market, and Sports Authority.
Gonzales was behind the Shadowcrew.com where stolen account numbers and counterfeit documents were auctioned out to the 4,000 users who registered on the site, and also offers tutorials and how-to’s in using cryptography in magnetic strips on credit cards – a virtual playground for thieves
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