Cyberattack

Accord­ing to the French government’s web­site, a cyber­at­tack is defined as “an infringe­ment to the IT sys­tems done with mali­cious intent. It aims dif­fer­ent com­put­ing devices: com­put­ers or servers, iso­lat­ed or in net­works, con­nect­ed or not to the Inter­net, periph­er­al equip­ment like print­ers, or com­mu­ni­cat­ing devices like mobile phones, smart­phones or tablets. There are 4 types of cyber risks with var­i­ous con­se­quences, direct­ly or indi­rect­ly affect­ing indi­vid­u­als, admin­is­tra­tions and com­pa­nies: cyber­crime, image dam­age, espi­onage, sab­o­tage. “

The evo­lu­tion of tech­niques and the arrival of new tech­nolo­gies make cyber­at­tacks more and more com­plex and offer new oppor­tu­ni­ties to attack­ers.

There are var­i­ous types of cyber­at­tack like attacks aim­ing the DNS (DDoS, DNS cache poi­son­ing, DNS spoof­ing, Man in the Mid­dle) or attacks direct­ly aim­ing users and hav­ing for pur­pose to obtain con­fi­den­tial infor­ma­tion to steal an iden­ti­ty (phish­ing).

The con­stant rise of the occur­rence, force and sophis­ti­ca­tion of the attacks, always reminds us that the fight against cyber­crime is now essen­tial.

Nameshield pro­pos­es effi­cient solu­tions to reduce cyber­at­tacks risks (cyber­se­cu­ri­ty) and to ben­e­fit from an opti­mal pro­tec­tion for brands and domain names (brand pro­tec­tion).

Find recent cas­es of cyber­at­tack on the blog.

Source of the cyberattack’s def­i­n­i­tion: Gouvernement.fr