8 Most Common Hacking Techniques You Must Know

Using these hacking techniques, a hacker can know about your personal unauthorized information which you don’t want to reveal.

Top 8 Hacking Techniques

1. Phishing

Phishing attacks are the practice of sending fraudulent communications that appear to come from a reputable source. People usually do it through email. The goal is to steal credit card and login information or install malware on the victim’s machine. Phishing is a common type of cyber attack that everyone should learn about in order to protect themselves.

2. Viruses and Trojan

Hackers install viruses or Trojans in victims’ systems to continuously send their data to the hacker. They can also lock your files, serve fraudulent advertisements, divert traffic, sniff your data, or spread to all computers on your network.

3. Cookie theft

A third party copies unencrypted session data to impersonate the real user, causing cookie theft. This often happens when a user accesses trusted sites over an unprotected or public Wi-Fi network. The system encrypts usernames and passwords but not session data (cookies) during transmission.

4. Online scams

Online scams are deceptive schemes conducted on the internet with the intention of defrauding individuals or organizations. These scams can take various forms, such as phishing emails, fake websites, social engineering tactics, and fraudulent investment opportunities.

5. Click Jacking Attacks

Clickjacking, also known as a “UI redress attack”, is when an attacker uses multiple transparent or opaque layers to trick a user into clicking on a button or link on another page when they were intending to click on the top level page. In this process, the attacker “hijacks” clicks intended for their page and redirects them to another page, typically owned by a different application, domain, or both.

Using a similar technique, malicious actors can also hijack keystrokes. With a carefully crafted combination of stylesheets, iframes, and text boxes, a user can be led to believe they are typing in the password to their email or bank account, but are instead typing into an invisible frame controlled by the attacker.

6. Fake WAP

The hacker makes use of software to dupe a wireless access point and once inside the network the hacker accesses all the required data. The Fake WAP is one of the easier hacks to achieve and one just needs a simple software and wireless network.

7. Keylogger

A keylogger sometimes called a keystroke logger or keyboard capture, is a type of surveillance technology used to monitor and record each keystroke on a specific computer. Keylogger software is also available for use on smartphones, such as the Apple iPhone and Android devices.

8. Denial of Service (DoS\DDoS) Attacks

A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a type of cyber attack in which a malicious actor aims to render a computer or other device unavailable to its intended users by interrupting the device’s normal functioning. DoS attacks typically function by overwhelming or flooding a targeted machine with requests until normal traffic is unable to be processed, resulting in denial-of-service to addition users. A DoS attack is characterized by using a single computer to launch the attack.

A distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack is a type of DoS attack that comes from many distributed sources, such as a botnet DDoS attack.

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