A Survey on Cyber Attacks

This survey examines cyber attacks as a major threat to modern information systems. It presents the main categories of attacks, including malware, ransomware, phishing, denial-of-service attacks, man-in-the-middle attacks, password attacks, web application attacks and supply chain attacks. The paper also discusses the impact of cyber attacks on individuals, organizations and critical infrastructure, as well as protection mechanisms such as multi-factor authentication, firewalls, encryption, backups, user training and network monitoring.