PHISHING

GROUP 1
 WHAT IS PHISHING ??

• Phishing refers to criminal activities in which the criminal

attempts to obtain sensitive information by masquerading as
someone or something else via email.
• The criminal poses as a legitimate person or entity in the
hopes of you trusting them and giving up personal information
such as your username or password, credit card details,
security codes, etc.
 SPEAR PHISHING

• Even scarier than phishing, is spear phishing, in which the email

appears to be from an individual or business you know and trust, but
it isn’t.
• Unlike a random attack, these target a specific organization to access
confidential information such as financials or trade secrets.
• Hackers are now looking at your organization’s web page for
employee listing and contact information so they know who to
pretend to be and who to target.
 VISHING

• Voice + Phishing = Vishing ; the telephone version of phishing. In this

scenario, you receive a phone call from a criminal posing as an
authentic business or agency in an attempt to fool you into providing
personal information.
• Vishing can occur via voice email, VoIP, landline or cell phone.
• These criminals are hard to track down as they have even spoofed
caller ID numbers to hide their identities.
 SMISHING

• Your phone lights up and you’ve got a new exciting text. “You have won a
free gift card, click this website to claim your prize!” But its not a prize. It’s a
fake link that captures your personal information. That’s smishing – SMS+
phishing.
• If you get a mysterious text, don’t reply, and keep an eye out for messages
coming from a “5000” number.
• This generally indicates the text message was sent via email to your cell
phone and not another mobile phone.
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