Social Engineering Attacks: Phishing Attacks

Social engineering
attacks:
Phishing Attacks

Social engineering attacks
 Social engineering is a kind of art where there will be a great
manipulation of data of all those who will be having very less knowledge
about several attacks.
 There are several ways with the help of which hackers trick a number of
people for opening the information by using the social engineering
attacks.

Phishing attacks
 It is basically a cybercrime where various attackers will be hugely
manipulating a number of people by obtaining a lot of personal
information.
 It is very much difficult to differentiate between the spoofing mail and
the legitimate mail.
 The spoofing mail may be causing a lot of harm to that of the
authentication of several users.

Types of phishing attacks
Spoofing email
Fake accounts
Hacking
Trojan horse