Title: Types of CyberCrime and How to Protect against Them
Headings: Types of Cybercrime and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
Types of Cybercrime and How to Protect Yourself Against Them
What is cybercrime?
Cybercrime Classification
Cybercrime against individuals
Cybercrime against companies/organizations
Cybercrime against society
Cybercrime against government
What are the different types of cybercrime?
Identity theft
Botnets
Cyberstalking
Social engineering
Flood attacks
Potentially unwanted programs
Exploit kits
Phishing attacks
Illegal content
Online scams
How to prevent cybercrime?
Keep your software updated
Enable your system firewall
Use different/strong passwords
Use antivirus and anti-malware software
Activate your email’s anti-spam blocking feature
Use 2FA for all your online services
Encrypt your local hard disk
Shop only from secure and well-known websites
Use a WHOIS private service
Use a private-secured DNS server
Use a VPN
Encrypt your email
Monitor your children’s online activities
Conclusion

Content: The primary motivation behind social engineering is often to steal money, financial data (such as bank account or credit card information), and other sensitive information from a company or customer. Flood attacks
Flood attacks include DoS and DDoS attacks. They’re usually launched by botnets that can target your domain names and IP addresses, in an effort to flood them with malicious requests that overload the servers, leading to service failure and connectivity interruption for valid, legitimate system users. Potentially unwanted programs
Potentially unwanted programs, also known as PUP, refers to software you never officially requested, but has been installed nevertheless. This type of software usually arrives bundled in other software that you actually have agreed to download. Most victims of this type of attack can blame cracked/pirated software. Common examples of this type of cybercrime are adware, spyware, dialers and malware. Exploit kits
Exploit kits use a software toolkit to target vulnerabilities found in remote software. A common example is the act of silently exploiting Flash or Java vulnerabilities in order to hack a website, then redirecting traffic to malicious pages. Phishing attacks
Phishing attacks are a form of social engineering used to trick users into providing their login, password, and other sensitive/personal information.