Overview
Phishing has emerged to be one of the most extensively used means bycybercriminals to deceive online users. In fact, most individuals who have anemail account or a cell phone would have come across a number of phishingemails; some even falling into this cyber trap.
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) of the United Nations has defined Phishing as
The ways and methods of Phishing have drastically diversified after ITU had defined the term. Today Phishing happens over email, phone, over social media, matrimonial portals, etc with various approaches and strategies.
Common Phishing Scams in India
Credit Card / Banking
Phishing Scams
OTP / Banking
Vishing Scams
Fake Government Schemes’
Website
Google Docs / Cloud
Phishing Scams
Fake Jobs Phishing /
Pharming Scams
Lottery Phishing
Scams
Fake Government Body Emails
(RBI, IT Dept, etc)
Event Phishing (Cricket World Cup,
popular Concerts, etc)
Types of Phishing
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Spear Phishing
Personalised attacks in which hacker knows which target they are after in order to increase the chances of them falling into their trap.
Email Spam
Same email is sent to millions with a request to fill in personal details which will be used by the phishers for their illegal activities.
Link Manipulation
Phisher sends a link to a malicious website which opens up the phisher’s website instead of the website mentioned in the link.
Content Injection
Technique where the phisher changes a part of thecontent on the page of a reliable website to mislead the user to go to a fraudinformation-seeking page.
Phishing through Search Engines
User is directed to fake products sitesfrom search engines which may offer low cost products or services.
Vishing (Voice Phishing)
The phisher makes phone calls to the user and bygaining trust seeks personal & banking information of the bank accountthrough the phone.
Smishing (SMS Phishing)
Phishing conducted via SMS.
Pharming
A method of attack which stems from domain name system(DNS) cache poisoning.
Whaling / CEO Fraud
Whaling is an attempt to go after the targethigh-level employees and executives to gain access to their email accountsor spoof them.
