Depending on the
seriousness of being victims of a Phishing attack, and due to
the increasing proliferation of this crime, the Federal Trade Commission
published a report detailing the factors to take into account in order to avoid
becoming victims.
It is a form of fraud on the Web
designed to steal the identity of the user. Through a phishing scam, hackers
try to obtain information such as passwords, credit card numbers, bank account
details, among other personal information. Typically
phishing attacks arise through spam or pop-up windows. According to some
statistics, 20% of attacks obtain personal data.
How does
Phishing work?
Hackers
send millions
of fake emails that appear to be from popular websites or
from websites that people trust, such as the bank where the person has an
account. The emails and the websites they refer to give the impression of
being official enough to persuade many people of their legitimacy.
Most people
do not know that these emails from the bank are false and
end up responding to the request for personal data. To generate emails
that look as true as possible, scam developers can add fake email
links that appear to lead to a legitimate website but
nevertheless lead the user to the fake website with an identical appearance to
the one on the site. Official Web site. These copies are generally called
counterfeit websites.
Examples of Phishing
To understand in simple features how
Phishing works, nothing better than doing it through an
example with a task that we usually do every day. In this scenario, we are
clients of a certain bank in which we have a checking account with some
deposits.
One morning we get up and see
that in the inbox of our email account, we
have a message from our bank asking us to click on a link in the body of the
email with any excuse, which can be, for example, the update of the
registration of clients of the entity. Also, suppose that in the same body
of the message, we are reminded of the importance of doing so or even some
threat, such as that they will proceed to close the account if they do not
hear from us.
At
this point, users who have no experience in security and how
banks work with new online resources, most likely, scared
and without thinking too much, click on the link, with which the poor are it
will unleash all hell.
Unfortunately,
there is no going back; we will have taken the bait. It should be noted
that this is the most classic example of Phishing. In the case of
wanting to know more about the existing types of Phishing, it is enough that we
continue reading the rest of the post.
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