Types of Cyber Attacks Crossword Puzzle

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• social engineering : a range of techniques employed by cybercriminals to deceive users into giving away their ids, passwords, or other personal information.
• phishing : an attack in which the victim receives a message disguised to look like it has come from a reputable source to trick the user into giving away personal data.
• blagging : an attack in which the perpetrator invents a scenario in order to convince the victim to give them data or money, through maintaining a conversation with the victim.
• shouldering : an attack designed to steal a victim's password or other personal information.
• malware : code that is created with the intent to cause damage to computer systems or steal data.
• viruses : a malicious form of self-replicating software that attaches itself to other programs of files, so that it can make copies of itself and spread easily to infect computer systems.
• worms : a malicious form of self-replicating software that causes damage to the system, that does not require a host program to spread, and instead replicate and distribute independently.
• trojan : a piece of malicious software that appears to be legitimate, to trick the user into executing it, which can steal data, redirect search requests, install more malware, or open a backdoor for remote control.
• spyware : a type of malicious software that is installed on a device without the user's knowledge, and captures data from the device to send it back to he creator, which can be used to gather information on the person.
• ransomware : a form of malicious software that locks a computer or encrypts files, and therefore prevents a user from accessing their data, which allows the attacker to demand a fee for the decrypted files.
• pharming : a type of cyberattack that redirects a user from a genuine website to a fake one.
• unsecure password : a password that is either too short or easily guessable.