Cyber attack infographics

Overview

Cybercrime poses a tangible and ever-present risk to governments, businesses and individuals. Social service agencies (SSAs) and charities are no exception. They face a higher risk of falling victim to cybercrimes like data breaches due to the vast datasets of sensitive personal information that they handle.

Cybersecurity awareness is critical for SSAs and charities to safeguard the interests of their employees, volunteers, and service users.

Explore our infographics

To gain insights into different cyber attacks and discover strategies to protect your organisation from them:

Malware

• Malicious software designed to damage and destroy computers and their systems.

Phishing

• Deceptive emails and websites that trick recipients into providing personal information.

Password attack

• Attempts to steal passwords to gain unauthorised access.

Denial-of-service attack

• A malicious act of rendering a network or device unavailable to its intended users.

Malvertising

• A cyber attack that plants malicious code into legitimate-looking online advertisements.

Website vulnerabilities

• Weaknesses in your website that can be exploited by a system flaw in the fundamental design or base code.

Man-in-the-middle attack

• A cyber attack that allows attackers to eavesdrop on the communications between two targets.