Phishing can be termed as a form of fraud in which the attacker masquerades as a reputable entity or a person in the form of email or other form of channel communication. The main idea, which is involved in the activity, is that the attacker uses phishing emails in order to distribute attachments and malicious link that can perform variety of functions. The activity may include extraction of the login details or details of the account of the user. The phishing activity can be termed as popular cybercrime due to the factor that it is very easy to trick someone to click a malicious link in an email, which is seemingly legitimate. After this activity, the hackers try to break through the defense of the computer.
The main aim of the report is to put emphasis on the term of phishing and its associated working field. The focus would be put on the concept of the problem, which is associated in the area and the defensive measure, which can be applied to the area. As the concept is involved in the area of the cyber criminals, it should be of high importance to defend against it and safe the user from the activity.
The phishing majorly relies on a concept where the attackers indulge themselves as some other person. This is based on human level relationship and reputation with a target trying to uncover information. There is conflict that the concept of the phishing can be termed as a science problem related to social, due to the factor that the attacker implement the tools which are social to exploit the victims. On the other hand, there is a counter of the agreement that it requires technical knowledge about the system, which is used by the victim. Concept of avoiding the security measures and directly making the message look very much credible in order to gain attention of the user. In order to classify the vectors of the attack the problem can be defined through the concept of both social engineering as well as technical prospective.
A phishing activity typically involves few basic steps, which can be referred to as technical tricks. These tricks are usually done in order to make them more convincing to the user. Few steps that can be incorporated are:
It is believed that the problem, which is related to the concept of phishing, has to be directly tackled with a heuristic approach. This approach may include technical enhancement, user education and process engineering.
There are no such silver bullet to tackle the issue, which are related to the phishing. The phishing countermeasures can be categorized into two parts client side tools, server side protection and other players.
In recent times, there is a huge increase of the number of security researchers . Organization are very much advised to keep up pace with the community and report incident. The community of the well-advised group play a very vital role in suspicious activity prevention and detection. One’s a phishing attack is exposed, the related company or the organization should interact with the customer and the stakeholders and inform them about the fraud.
Conclusion:
The report can be ended on a note that the phishing attack plays a vital role in the sphere of advanced security over the network. The direct effect of the attack can be on an individual for an organization. Phishing can never be eradicated by preventive can decrease the overall effect of the attack. The user’s education remain one of the most important factors in order to provide the necessary details of the security aspects. The organization who provide the basic service also have to play a role in the activity.
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