What are the most common ways to get hacked?

Hacking has an expansive world, and its topics are so widespread that if you are interested in this world, you have to spend many hours studying to get additional information about this field. Suppose you want to know about the history of hacking. In that case, we must say that there is no detailed history because since the users started working with the computer, there were many people who tried to hack users' systems. With the spread of science and technology, the number of people who worked in this field increased. Finally, the term "Hacker" was first heard in 1950, referring to people who tried to change and disrupt performance with high creativity and intelligence.

Today, different countries have various statistics on the number of hackers in them, and as you know, some countries, such as China, the United States,  Turkey, Russia, etc., have many hackers, if you pay attention to the articles on our site, you can see that lots of them are about this field so that you can use them to increase your information.

One of the most essential things you need to know about hackers is that there are different types of them, among which we can mention white hat hackers,  black hat hackers, pink hat hackers, red hat hackers, etc. It should be noted that all of them have curious personalities, and they are trying to achieve their desires and goals in different ways.

It should be said that when hackers attack you as a user, you do not know where and when the cyberattack started because you have already made every effort to  increase the level of security of your system  (in Slovak zvýšiť úroveň zabezpečenia vášho systému). You did not expect any problem, and you might think that no one can gain access to your system and information.

As you can see, these days, due to the increasing number of profiteers, users who deal with the Internet have to make every effort to increase the level of security of their systems, if you want to know what you should do in this situation, we can mention the use of strong passwords, the use of  anti-virus software, getting help from experts, etc., but hackers still try to infiltrate various systems through new and updated ways, which in this article, we are going to point out the ways that hackers use to achieve their goals.

What are the standard ways to get hacked?

Hackers use different methods to hack, and day by day, if the security of other systems increases, they change their plans regularly and use newer ones to hack a result, you have to be up-to-date to be able to prevent them from stealing your data because there are lots of ways which they prefer to use to achieve their desires, among which the following can be mentioned.

- Infiltration through invalid software:

Hackers can infiltrate your system through malicious code  that they put in the software, so you should never download the software you need from unreliable sources or try to update them from unreliable sources.

If you have not noticed this to date, now is the time to check your downloaded programs. If you encounter anything suspicious, delete all the information about that program to protect your system against possible threats.

- Social engineering:

One of the most common methods among hackers is that they intend to enter your site in a friendly manner and abuse your  site information  so that attackers make you trust them by pretending to be someone you know or a good company. They will use your information in the way that they want, in this way, they send you an email that has a slightly different address from the person you trust, and they ask you for your personal information, such as a password, etc.

And through this way, you will fall into the trap of hackers, so be sure to pay attention to everything and if you receive an email, try to check the email address before opening it, and if you feel that it is suspicious, never open it. If you do so, you should never open the link sent to you because those links are infected and clicking on them may let  hackers install the malware in your system  or try other ways to achieve their malicious goals.

- Use of poor site configuration:

One of the ways they use to infiltrate different systems is through configuring  the site structure, which has a significant impact on hackers' infiltration. If it has many holes, it opens the way for hackers to gain access to the essential data to quickly get what they want.

- .M.I.T.M attacks:

One of the types of attacks is called  Man in The Middle. In this type of attack, the hacker can interfere in every single request that you send to the server, and through this attack, other possibilities are provided for the hackers, among which the following can be done:

Hackers can easily change your destination and take you to a website you never intended, allowing hackers to view your search history and access important information. They can replace files that you have targeted and downloaded with files that they like or files that contain infected code.

In general, in order not to be hacked in this way, it is better not to connect to public Wi-Fi if you have essential information in your system to protect your information.

- Hacking by finding the password:

Remember that using strong passwords (in Czech: pomocí silných hesel) is very important. As a result, you have to pay more attention to this point in the field of security.

One of the most common methods of hacking is through easy passwords because many people use their name or family members' date of birth, name of their pet, and so on, in order not to forget them, these types of passwords can be easily guessed, so hackers can cross this obstacle in the shortest possible time and can access important information.

- Physical Attacks:

Among the standard methods for hacking, we can mention the physical attack, in which case the hacker can easily and quickly access a large amount of information, so it is necessary to do things like using a safe place to store information, consider the use of CCTV cameras, security guards, etc., to protect essential details.

- Phishing:

Phishing is another standard method that hackers  use to infiltrate different systems. In simple terms, it can be said that in this method, the hackers try their  best to create a site  that is similar to the leading site and with the same address, this similarity should be so much in a way that users cannot realize that it is not the main one to which they have entered, and eventually enter all their information in it. As a result, hackers abuse this information as much as possible and can gain access to users' accounts and their essential data.

So far, we have mentioned some of the standard methods that hackers use to hack. Still, as you know, every day profiteers try to update their knowledge in their field of activity and choose new ways, so If you want to prevent hackers from entering your systems, you need to be up-to-date and spend many hours studying so that you can provide high security for your information. We suggest that you get help from experts like white hat hackers.

Last word:

In this article, we have briefly reviewed the standard methods used by hackers so that you can become more familiar with them and finally choose better measures to deal with them. We hope the content provided has been helpful to you, and you have been able to know how dangerous hackers can be and how much they can affect the reputation of your systems.