I’m saying random mid-size to exclude hackers with heavy resource and motivation to hack said company. I would assume Microsoft, banks, google etc all get heavily attacked every day. But like a random mid-size company for the average joe. How do they infiltrate e.g. their servers and take ransom of all their project files?
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There are many ways this happens but one of the most popular is called social engineering. This is where the attacker pretends to be someone their not in order to gain access to the victim’s information. You’ve probably heard of the stereotypical “Nigerian Prince” scam. A Nigerian Prince has several assets frozen and only needs your bank account information to unlock. All it takes is one person stupid enough to fall for the scam in order to give away their information. The same thing can be done with passwords. A hacker will pretend to be a website they’re not in the hopes someone will input their information.
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