Phishing Attack
Phishing Attack is a common type of cybersecurity attack that aims at your confidential information such as financial information, login credentials or organization’s data. Phishing attacks can be uncomplicated to detect. Phishing attack is to target larger number of users. The attackers will more emphasize on the number of targets with the anticipation that the small quantity of the targets will drop as a victim to it.
Types of phishing attacks
Spear phishing
Spear phishing practice is about sending fraud electronic mails from a trusted sender to aim other individuals to get and reveal the sensitive information.
Whaling
Whaling attack is done by CEO or COO of the company to target the other senior officials with access to very essential details. It is too rare to detect because these attacks do not contain any harmful attachments or malevolent uniform resource locator (URL).
Clone phishing
Clone phishing attack is a kind of spear phishing which is based on the previously delivered message or email that totally identical or cloned email. It contains a link or attachment which is replaced with the malicious version and sent from a spoofed email address to appear as from an original sender.
Solutions to prevent Phishing Attacks
Cyber security Awareness training
Training and education of security awareness will help to reduce the attacks on the business or organization from the cyber criminals. And up skill that education up to date to learn how to avoid phishing attacks or phishing scams.
Filter Bogus URLs (Uniform Resource Locator)
The bogus or malicious URLs can be detected and resolved by examining the domain names such as http//:gaup.of.com, http//:e.ru/stats/00/customer/ and so on. Most of the businesses use filters to resolve malicious URLs that cyber criminals already know and they try to detour by sending the phishing message. These messages can be without texts but it can be a picture which contains the text and that can be easily ignored by using URL filter(s).
Filter Distrustful Attachments
The suspicious or distrustful attachments can contain virus or malware but it can be resolved converting the file type such as .docx to .pdf. The suspicious attachments can be detected by scanning them using installed antivirus software from different vendor. The suspicious emails can go through the firewall or bypass the antivirus, in such cases, the sender must be a verified person and attachment file should be checked before downloading it because the file type could be a word file shown as pdf.