What are spoofing and phishing?
Spoofing is when an intruder comes in the website and makes sure
that the person in front of him believes they are interacting with each other
and are very trust-able. They scam people by using a trustworthy
email id, user name, phone
number, and a website URL by which they can steal data, control systems, access
systems, and spread malware.
Spoofing is when the
criminal imitates any individual or organization to gather personal or business
information.
Phishing occurs when a
person replies to a fraudulent email that shows it's an urgent thing or clicks
on some catchy lines demonstrated in an email or text message.
Phishing is somehow
related to fishing as it sounds. A fisherman knows when he will put bait in the
fishing rod, and then the fish will be caught same occurs in phishing. The
scammer or criminal gathers information about you from some website, and then
they give you a giveaway message or something fascinating scheme.
People learn hacking
as a proper subject to help people, organizations, and governments, but few
don't use it well.
Types of spoofing
. Email spoofing:
Email spoofing is when
a hacker sends and creates an email that will be recognized as one of the known
emails by the victim. Many websites are the medium for such hackers by directly
sending the information of the email id by which the victim had login into that
particular website.
Attention can prevent
us from paying a suspicious email. If it asked you about your personal
information or the ATM pin, you should avoid that. Skip the email that starts
with a generic greeting or has attached strange documents. Avoid email which
has urgency, like your account will be closed!
. Website spoofing:
website spoofing is
when the hacker creates a fake
website that looks like the
legal one. Once you log in there, the hacker gets your account and the password
by which they can get the required information.
These are followed
mainly by spoofing and phishing emails, so the signs mentioned above to prevent
email spoofing will also be helpful in website spoofing.
They start forming the
trust between the website and the victim, so they are hard to detect.
. Call spoofing:
call spoofing is easy
to track, and they are from unknown numbers, which are a bit different from the
usual call numbers. So it is better not to answer suspicious phone calls and
ask for your bank-related, personal information as no organization asks for your
bank details.
Types of phishing
. Email phishing:
most phishing attacks
are made by sending emails. We should always check the sender's email address
as there are many ways to spot phishing, but one should be attentive.
. Spear phishing:
spear phishing is when
the hacker already has some information about the victim. Inside the email, the
victim is referenced informally, and the job, name, and user name are all
written.
. Whaling:
whaling is a more
sophisticated technique in which the senior of some office or industry is the
victim. They are mostly portrayed as busy CEO.
. Smishing and vishing:
smishing and vishing
involve the phishing done by messages and calls. Most of the time, by messaging
the alerts with the link we get in the message section, the link will only lead
to the fraudster.
. Angler phishing:
angler phishing is
done when someone just posted their review or complaint about any organization.
The hijackers ask for their details in the DM section, which leads to the
information leak and the hack of personal information.
Prevention of spoofing and phishing
- Stay attentive
- Hide your IP address
- Change passwords from time to time
- Not opening the strange attachments
- Use antivirus protection
- never reply to emails and messages that ask for your personal information
- Report things that are suspicious to you
- Reduce spam mails
- Keep every phase of the machine updated
- Disable HTML based emails
Conclusion
When the internet
comes to many knowledgeable and exciting things in this modern technological
era, scammers also know how to manipulate or fool you. The scammer knows how to
create a message or email that will look like it is urgent and from a trust-able
site that asks for your details; otherwise, some critical thing will stop
working, but we have to be aware of such intruders and not fall for their trap.
While using any website, we should always pay attention to the website URL and
stay attentive. To take measure against certain scammers is to be preventive
and that is why you should know about the most common IP address, 10.0.0.2.
These attacks are getting more active as the online work, transactions. Orders are getting common. People in a rush and not aware of such things are more prone to these things.
