Title: What is a Cyber Attack? | Check Point Software
Headings: What is a Cyber Attack?
What is a Cyber Attack?
Cyber Attacks in the News
SolarWinds Sunburst Attack
Ransomware Attacks
Cyber Attack Trends
TREND 1: Software supply chain attacks on the rise
TREND 2: Evasive phishing cyber attacks
TREND 3: Clouds under attack
TREND 4: Mobile device attacks
A Cyber Attack is Preventable

Content: One such example is the attack on PrismWeb, an e-commerce platform, in which attackers injected a skimming script into the shared JavaScript libraries used by online stores, affecting more than 200 online university campus stores in North America. TREND 2: Evasive phishing cyber attacks
Phishing is a popular cyber attack technique and continues to be one of the biggest threats to cyber security. Advanced socially engineered evasion techniques are bypassing email security solutions with greater frequency. Check Point researchers noted a surge in sextortion scams and business email compromise (BEC), threatening victims into making a payment through blackmail or by impersonating others, respectively. Both scams do not necessarily contain malicious attachments or links, making them harder to detect. In April, one sextortion campaign went as far as pretending to be from the CIA and warned victims they were suspected of distributing and storing child pornography. Hackers demanded $10,000 in Bitcoin. Evasive email scams include encoded emails, images of the message embedded in the email body, as well as complex underlying code that mixes plain text letters with HTML character entities. Social engineering techniques, as well as varying and personalizing the content of the emails, are additional methods allowing the scammers to fly safely under the radar of anti-spam filters and reach their target’s inbox.