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All answers to “Name a type of cyberattack or malware”
The complete list: 106 answers, 53 of them longer than one word, with the alternative spellings that also count. Rarity stays hidden.
A
- Adware
- ARP spoofing
B
- Backdoor
- Baiting
- Birthday attack
- Bluejacking
- Bluesnarfing
- Botnet
- Brute force attackalso Brute force
- Buffer overflow
C
- Clickjacking
- Code Red
- Cold boot attack
- Command injection
- Conficker
- Credential stuffing
- Cross-site request forgeryalso CSRF
- Cross-site scriptingalso XSS
- Cryptojacking
D
- DDoSalso Distributed denial of service
- Deauthentication attack
- Denial of servicealso DoS
- Dictionary attack
- Directory traversalalso Path traversal
- DNS amplification
- DNS spoofing
- DNS tunneling
- Drive-by download
E
- Emotet
- EternalBlue
- Evil maid attack
- Evil twin
F
- Fileless malware
- Format string attack
- Formjacking
G
- Golden ticket
H
- Heap spraying
- Heartbleed
I
- Identity theft
- ILOVEYOU
J
- Juice jacking
K
- Kerberoasting
- Keylogger
L
- LDAP injection
- Log4Shell
- Logic bomb
M
- Magecart
- Malvertising
- Malware
- Man-in-the-middlealso MITM
- Melissa
- Meltdown
- Mirai
- Morris worm
N
- NotPetya
P
- Pass the hash
- Password spraying
- Pegasus
- Pharming
- Phishing
- Ping of death
- Privilege escalation
Q
- Quishing
R
- Rainbow table attack
- Ransomware
- Remote access trojanalso RAT
- Remote code executionalso RCE
- Replay attack
- Return-oriented programmingalso ROP
- Rootkit
- Rowhammer
S
- Scareware
- Server-side request forgeryalso SSRF
- Session hijacking
- Shellshock
- Side-channel attack
- SIM swapping
- Slowloris
- Smishing
- Smurf attack
- Social engineering
- Spam
- Spear phishing
- Spectre
- Spyware
- SQL injection
- SQL Slammer
- Stuxnet
- Supply chain attack
- SYN flood
T
- Tailgatingalso Piggybacking
- Teardrop attack
- Timing attack
- Trojanalso Trojan horse
- Typosquatting
U
- Use-after-free
V
- Virusalso Computer virus
- Vishing
W
- WannaCry
- Wardriving
- Watering hole attack
- Whaling
- Worm
X
- XML external entityalso XXE
Z
- Zero-dayalso Zero-day exploit
- Zeus
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