Survey on Cyber Attacks and Initial methods for its avoidance

Abstract

A survey paper on the cyber crime which effected so many digital systems as we are very much depending upon internet for so many things in our daily life. It describes about the various cyber attacks around the world.In the early days of personal computing, malware threats like the infamous Brain virus, was distributed using floppy disk and were easily localized and handled. But after long time because of the Internet the cybercrime was massively distributed. From there we have seen methods of attacking increased drastically which became more prevalent. One of the most difficult things to counter about all of these cyber threats is that they are now truly personal. The one such example is ransomeware which will attack the victim’s system and demand him to pay money called ransome. Unless until he pay’s the attacker will not resume the system from his control. Recently we had heard that so many banking systems were hacked due to this cyber threat ransome, In this paper I am giving some of the examples of different kinds of cyber attacks.