Hands-On Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity

Most common network attacks

Given the enormous variety of combinations that we can identify by putting together different features, it is inevitable that we have to resort to a threat model that reflects the level of risk to which a given organization is subjected, and on the basis of this model, to identify the most representative feature of combinations for possible attacks.

In this sense, it can be useful to analyze which are the most frequent types of network attacks:

• Malware-based
• Zero-day exploits
• Data exfiltration via network sniffing
• Saturation of network resources (DoS)
• Session hijacking
• Connection spoofing
• Port scanning

On the basis of a similar classification (to be adapted to the specific context and constantly updated), we ...