How to protect yourself against cybercrime in 2021?

We all are familiar with the words cybercrime and cyberattack. With the up-gradation of technology, crime is also becoming smart day by day. Cybercrime is committed by cybercriminals or hackers who are highly technically skilled. They keep their crime-eyes online on your computer system and electronic gadgets. So, if you are not aware and conscious about what you are doing online then they can steal all your personal information within a second. There are some mobile applications websites which take the information of user after being hang of a sudden.

10 types of Cybercrimes: -

Botnets - Remote hackers externally control compromised computers from some networks. Those networks are called Botnets. With the help of these networks, they send spam or attack to computers.
Cyberstalking - Cyberstalking includes libel, false accusations, slander, and defamation. To harass or stalk an individual, group, or organization by the use of the internet or other social networks is called cyberstalking.
Social Engineering - Social Engineering involves criminals acting as a customer service agent and making contact with you directly by phone or email. They add you as a friend on their social accounts and asked for the password, the company you work for, or bank information. Some of the fake agents call you over the phone by the name of your bank and ask you to update your KYC form on phone. At the same call, they ask about your bank account id and password.
SQL Injections - Through this type of cybercrime, the hacker uses malicious code and manipulates the backend database to access information that is not intended to be displayed.
PUPs - These are types of malware. The full form of PUPs is Potentially Unwanted Programs. This type of malware uninstalls all the important software from your system including search engines.
Cross-site Scripting - A hacker can steal a user's username and password by this type of scripting. Hackers inject malicious code into the trusted websites and applications. When a user visits the infected website through the browser and clicks then the javascript code is executed on that browser. At that time, they steal user's credential information.
Whale Phishing - This is a type of attack which attacks to high profiled people who are mainly industrialist or businessmen like CEOs or CFOs. This phishing attack aims at stealing their information and sensitive data.
Ransomware - If a ransom is not paid then this ransomware virus blocks all the users to access their own data and deletes them all.
Password Attacks - In this attack, hackers use Password Sniffers or Dictionary Attacks to decrypt user's passwords that are exported or stored in a file.
DDoS - The full form of DDoS is Distributed Denial of Service. This attacks at web servers of high profiled organizations such as the government or trade firms and after stealing the information crash the website.

Ways to protect your systems from cyberattacks: -

You need to keep your computer software and operating systems up to date.
Always use updated anti-virus software to protect your system from malware, spyware, trojan, etc. all types of virus attacks.
Always backup your data from time to time.
Firewall installation is needed.
Every employee should have a separate personal credential within a system.
Always try to set a strong password.
Do not give out personal information unless secure.
Do not click on links in spam emails or untrusted websites.
If you get any suspicious request then contact companies directly.
Never open attachments in spam emails.
Keep an eye on your bank statements.
Be mindful of which website URLs you visit.