Privilege Escalation

An attack where a user gains elevated access to resources that are normally protected, beyond what their assigned permis...

Port Scanning

A technique used to identify open ports and services available on a networked host by sending connection requests to a r...

Man-in-the-Middle (MITM)

An attack where the attacker secretly intercepts and potentially alters communications between two parties who believe t...

Social Engineering

The psychological manipulation of people into performing actions or divulging confidential information, exploiting human...

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT)

A prolonged and targeted cyberattack where a sophisticated threat actor (typically a nation-state or organized crime gro...

Brute Force Attack

An attack method that systematically tries all possible combinations of characters to crack passwords, encryption keys, ...

Spear Phishing

A targeted phishing attack directed at a specific individual, organization, or role using personalized information gathe...

Penetration Testing

An authorized simulated cyberattack on a computer system, network, or application performed to evaluate its security pos...