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TYPES OF MALWARE, CONSEQUENCES, SOLUTION &PREVENTION - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Prep and Expose — hacker exploits a vulnerability to expose users to malware.
      - Infect — user devices are infected with malware that can take control of their device.
      - Activate — hackers mobilize infected devices to carry out attacks.
- - - - The most common is through phishing or another type of social engineering attack. Victims unknowingly download and install malware that hides within other processes running on their machines and give the hackers control of almost all aspects of the operating system.
      - Another way is through exploiting a vulnerability – i.e., a weakness in software or an operating system that has not been updated – and forcing the rootkit onto the computer.
      - Malware can also be bundled with other files, such as infected PDFs, pirated media, or apps obtained from suspicious third-party stores.
- - - - A computer virus requires a host program.
      - A computer virus requires user action to transmit from one system to another.
      - A computer virus attaches bits of its own malicious code to other files or replaces files outright with copies of itself.