By Sandeep Kasalkar
Ever since we got used doing our business transactions online, and later, more on the Mobile Apps, none of us is perhaps in the dark about what phishing is. However, phishing is indeed a dark world where the online fraudsters burn a lot of midnight oil in devising various schemes to cheat you of all that you have in your bank account.
Since, we know about phishing emails, online payment frauds, and a few types of phishing attacks in the crypto world, let us try to understand more about them.
Pharming attack
Even if the victim enters the right URL, they are still forwarded to a bogus website in this kind of phishing assault.
This is typically accomplished by inserting malicious code into the DNS server which oversees translating URLs into IP addresses. When victims attempt to access a legitimate website, the code will then reroute them to the attacker’s bogus website.
Pharming attacks can be exceedingly challenging to recognize, making them particularly deadly. Even if a victim types in the right URL for their bank’s website, they could still end up on a phoney version of the site that appears exactly like the genuine thing.
Evil twin attack
Public Wi-Fi networks are the target of an evil twin phishing attack. Here is how an attacker operates: They’ll create a phoney Wi-Fi network with the same name as an authorized network. Victims will be asked for their login information when they attempt to connect to the network, which the phishers can exploit to access their accounts.
Voice phishing attack
This kind of phishing, often known as vishing, uses voicemails or voice calls rather than emails. Typically, it takes place over voice-based media including traditional home phone service or voice-over IP.
When conducting a voice phishing assault, the perpetrator spoofs the caller ID to make it seem as though they are phoning from a reputable business, such a bank. When leaving voicemails warning potential victims of fraudulent activity in their bank or credit accounts, phishing scammers frequently use speech synthesis software.
Keep watching this space to know the other types of phishing attacks.
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