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Cyber threats

There are many types of cyber threats that can attack your devices and networks, but they generally fall into three categories. The categories are attacks on confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

• Attacks on availability integrity confidentiality . These include stealing your personal identifying information and your bank account or credit card information. Many attackers will take your information and sell it on the part of the World Wide Web that is only accessible by means of special software, allowing users and website operators to remain anonymous or untraceablethe dark web for others to purchase and use.
• Attacks on availability integrity confidentiality . These attacks consist of personal or enterprise sabotage and are often called the origin of secret information that becomes known, or the act of making it knownleaks. A cybercriminal will access and release sensitive information for the purpose of to uncover or allow to be seenexposing the data and influencing the public to lose trust in that organization.
• Attacks on availability integrity confidentiality . The aim of this type of cyberattacks is to block users from accessing their own data until they pay a fee or a large amount of money that is demanded in exchange for someone or somethingransom. Typically, a cybercriminal will to secretly join an organization or enter a place in order to find out secret information about it or harm itinfiltrate your network and block you from accessing important data, demanding that you pay a ransom. Companies sometimes pay the ransom and fix the cyber vulnerability afterward so that they can avoid to (cause to) stop moving or doing something or happeninghalting business activities.