Cyber-attack is any type of offensive maneuver employed by individuals or whole organizations that targets computer information systems, infrastructures, computer networks, and/or personal computer devices by various means of malicious acts usually originating from an anonymous source that either steals, alters, or destroys a specified target by
hacking into a susceptible system. These can be labeled as either a
cyber campaign,
cyberwarfare or
cyberterrorism in different context. Cyber-attacks can range from installing
spyware on a PC to attempts to destroy the infrastructure of entire nations. Cyber-attacks have become increasingly sophisticated and dangerous as the
Stuxnet worm recently demonstrated.