Explanation:

Cyber Attack: It is a malicious and deliberate attempt by an individual or organization to breach the information system of another individual or organization.

Recent increase in use of smartphones by majority of people and availability of cheap internet has led to a spurt in cases of cyber attacks.

The motives behind such attacks, therefore, are manifold.

Some of the chief motives behind such Cyber Attacks are:

To seek commercial gain by hacking banks and financial institutions.

To attack critical assets of a nation.

To penetrate into both corporate and military data servers to obtain plans and intelligence.

To hack sites to virally communicate a message for some specific campaign related to politics and society.