Phishing Attack and its Counter Measures

Phishing Attack and its Counter Measures

Shatakshi, Vijay Laxmi (A.P. CSE department)

B.Tech. Computer Science, PDM University Bahadurgarh, Haryana, India

ABSTRACT

Phishing is a type of cybercrime in which attackers impersonate real persons/ organizations by impersonating them as persons or organizations via e-mail or other communication media. In this type of cyberattack, the attacker sends malicious links or links via phishing emails that can perform various tasks, including obtaining the victim's credentials or account information. These emails causedamage to victims of loss of money and identity theft. One of the biggest problems in internet technology is unwanted spam. Well-concealed phishing emails come as part of spam and currently the inbox is very active. While phishing is often seen as a consumer problem, scams used by phishers are now hurting businesses as well. In this article, we identify various types of phishing attacks and outline some defenses that can be avoided. We first discuss different types of phishing attacks in theory, and then we examine some examples of attacks in practice and common defensesagainst them. We also mentioned new statistics on phishing scams to predict the problem.