Cyber Risks and Security-A Case Study on Analysis of Malware

The automation of business enterprises, the bulk computer storage to store sensitive information, various distributed applications being accessed via the Internet, all these have become critical for the government, financial institutions, and millions of users. Cyber security plays an important role to identify different types of risks and to overcome the challenges of securing the information thereby preventing financial and reputational damage to the organization and its customers. This work introduces some known threats to Cyber Security-Keylogger and Adware, and how they are spoofed and sent to a victim, with which an attacker can surreptitiously break into a network system. This study shows how anyone on the Internet can fall prey to such malware attacks, and how a user needs to protect himself/herself with such increasing number of Internet users. Approaches to prevent these malware programs are also discussed in this paper.