What is Phishing?

Phishing

Many of you've heard about phishing or the word phishing. If you hadn't heard this before, then, there are certain questions which may come to your mind like,

1. What is Phishing?

2. It seems like the word 'Fishing'?

3. How does it work?


This post is for those who have the above questions in their mind.
The topic 'Phishing' may be clear to you in this article.

The definition of phishing is very simple and easy to understand.

Phishing is a form of fraud in which an attacker fools you to take your confidential data, passwords, bank account information, credit card details, email or any other communication details.
Phishing is very popular among cybercriminals as it is easier to trick someone for one click on their malicious link through which an attacker can take access of the data, account or any other information.
The word 'Phishing' is the homophone of 'Fishing'. As you all know that Fishing is the activity of catching fishes in which a person tries to catch fishes in his trap.
Just as same, in Phishing an attacker tries to fool a victim in his trap.
I think, the definition of Phishing has become clear to you all now.

Now, the question is that How does it work?
In simple language,
In this technique, an attacker sends a malicious link to the victims and tries to fool him to click on that link.

In long, an attacker designs a malicious web page and sends it to the victim via email or some other communication. The victim receives a message or emails which seem to have come from some organisation or company which contains a malicious link. When the victims click on that malicious link, the victims redirect to a fake website or web page that look same alike as the real website or web page. When the victim enters his personal data like (passwords, emails) on that web page, the attackers receives his personal data mostly in a .txt file.
I hope that you understand.

Facebook, twitter, Gmail and other social networking sites can be hacked using this technique.

Conclusion

• Never click on the link on which you don't trust.

• Always check the URL of the link. Because the malicious link URL never same as the real website URL. For example, if an attacker sends you a fake malicious link of Facebook. It never be same as www.facebook.com, it may be www.faccebok.com but not same as the real facebook URL.

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