Question

How are phishing, ransomware and distributed- denial of service attack alike and different?

Answer 1

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Phishing means cyber theft in which the cyber thief sends the target PC a malicious email, which looks like coming from some known source, and they ask for certain critical information, which must not be leaked. Similarly, In ransomware, they send the phishing email with malicious code, and they hack the computer system. They then ask for a ransom as a return for reactivating your PC. Distributed Denial of service attack happens when the traffic flood the bandwidth and the resources of a PC, and finally a lot of are denied of access to them. Ransomware, when it attacks a bank account, becomes a Denial of service attack, as multiple users are stopped from accessing their account. All of these are hence, almost the same and revolves around the phishing email.

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