Types of Attacks - ties2/Red-Team GitHub Wiki

Social engineering attacks

  • Phishing
  • Spear phishing
  • Whaling
  • Vishing
  • Tailgating
  • Impersonation
  • Dumpster diving
  • Shoulder surfing
  • Hoax
  • Watering hole attack
  • Authority
  • Intimidation
  • Consensus
  • Scarcity
  • Familiarity
  • Trust
  • Urgency

Application/service attacks

  • DoS
  • DDoS
  • Man-in-the-middle
  • Buffer overflow
  • Man-in-the-middle
  • Buffer overflow
  • Injection
  • Cross-site scripting
  • Cross-site request forgery
  • Privilege escalation
  • ARP poisoning
  • Amplification
  • DNS poisoning
  • Domain hijacking
  • Man-in-the-browser
  • Zero day
  • Replay
  • Pass the hash
  • Hijacking and related attacks
  • Driver manipulation
  • MAC spoofing
  • IP spoofing

Wireless attacks

  • Replay
  • IV
  • Evil twin
  • Rogue AP
  • Jamming
  • WPS
  • Bluejacking
  • Bluesnarfing
  • RFID
  • NFC
  • Disassociation

Cryptographic attacks

  • Birthday
  • Known plain text/ cipher text
  • Rainbow tables
  • Dictionary
  • Brute force
  • Collision Downgrade
  • Replay/playback
  • Weak implementations