Select a form of a malicious attack (or engineered method) to gain access to your information.
Discuss how a hacker might be able to use one of the many different methods to gain access to a system to obtain sensitive data.
Malware is one of the biggest threats when it comes to hacking and is dangerous to businesses and individual’s networks and computer devices. Malware main purpose is to harm while infecting devices and networks, there are many subcategories of Malware to include viruses, worms, ransomware and bots just to name a few. “Malware can go undetected for extended periods of time. Many users are only aware of a malware attack if they receive an antimalware alert, see pop-up ads, are redirected to malicious websites, or experience slow computer speeds or frequent crashes (Harford, 2021).”