Ping attacks
A very simple yet devastating attack that can be formed by a ping command is a little-known attack called a Denial of Service or DOS. A Denial of Service can be simplified as a freeze of a computer or service website due to the amount or size of packets being sent to that address. If you can think of a website as a physical store and the line going from your computer to their website is a road. If an extreme number of packets are sent to the website, then the access to that website will be congested, if enough packets are sent at once the path to that website can become too congested to where it can deny an actual legitimate packet trying to get through. Attacks like this can last as long as the attacker wants, if lasting long enough it can deter customers to get fed up and look for another client to do business with.
Security holes/vulnerabilities, Social engineering
Security holes or vulnerability in your systems can lead to extremely dangerous and even sometimes life-threatening situations. Having leaked information such as passwords or important information can cost individuals hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, having this done to a company can be even more expensive. Entire companies have been hit so hard that they were never able to recover. Back in 2021 a small hospital in Alabama had all of their systems overrun by an outside source due to week security, this kind of attack is known as a ransomware attack. The entire hospital was held for Ransome virtually. Because of this attack their computer system was completely locked out of and resulted in a newborns death. This was the first instance of hacking causing a death. Such things as more encrypted passwords and PPI could help with Vulnerability.
Social engineering is a different type of attack which involves psychological manipulation such as random phone calls from people stating to be with the FBI or claiming to be someone they're not to try and get valuable information from people. This can also include bullying and irate actions towards people into scaring them into releasing information. Subscription based companies can get hit with this kind of attack quite substantially. But the biggest attack to have happened recently was the $100 million dollar Google and Facebook spear phishing scam, Rimasauskas a Lithuanian had the idea of creating a fake manufacturer company that worked for Google and Facebook. He then sent phishing emails to employees of the two companies asking for compensations for the work that had been done. From 2013 to 2015 Ramanauskas and his associates had stolen over $100 million from the two tech companies. The funny thing about this kind of scam is that properly training your employees would have saved these companies millions.
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