Catphishing belongs to the family of Phishing attacks. Hackers try to scam their victims, by pretending to be someone else. For this, they use stolen pictures and information or just build a fictional identity.
How does catphishing work?
As it is a type of phishing…
You should know how to prevent phishing attacks, in order to protect your personal information and your money. Hackers use it frequently, but if you know how to stay on the safe side, you should not worry about their actions.
A few hints about these attacks
The name of…
Phishing attacks are a permanent source of income for hackers. Also, internet users seem to be still vulnerable to this method of stealing money.
Read on to learn how to avoid becoming a victim of such attacks.
What are phishing attacks?
Phishing attacks are scams…
In today’s fast-paced digital world, phishing scams have become some of the easiest forms of social engineeringattacks for cybercriminals to carry out. In light of this, these online scams continue to proliferate at worrying rates and are becoming increasingly…
Clone Phishing belongs to the family Phishing attacks where hackers alter a legitimate email coming from an official source and create a replica of it. During this process, they also embed it with malicious links and attachments redirecting you to third-party…
Spear Phishing attack belongs to the family of email-based cyber-attacks. It is categorized as a highly personalized attack and usually targets a specific individual. Apart from this, unlike normal phishing emails, its emails are strategically designed so that victims can…
A lot of phishing and hacking attempts are based on what’s the most trending thing on the Internet. Perpetrators and online scammers use celebrities and big events for phishing attacks in order to exploit users.
Now, it’s important to understand how phishing…
Phishing, in practice consists of email containing URLs (links) to doubtful domains. How do we avoid phishing via tricky domains? How can we spot them?
For instance, you receive an email (promting you to verify your account by providing any of the following: name…
Protective Measures Against COVID-19 (Coronavirus) Phishing Attacks: How To Stay Safe?
March 31, 2020
Cyber Exploiters wait for opportune moments to trick users and launch malware attacks, phishing campaigns and ransomware attacks on users. The reason behind this is that it is easy to take people into confidence during certain scenarios that impact the world massively.
Let’s take a look at phishing and how can we avoid it. Phishing refers to tricking users to gain access to private information of people such as their usernames, passwords, credit card information, etc.
Phishing attempts are masterminded by cyber attackers who…
