Phishing

Types of Phishing and Techniques

Phishing

Sending emails or other messages pretending to be a trustworthy company to steal information

Typosquatting

URL hacking through misspelling or adding a letter to a URL

Pretexting

Creating a scenario to induce urgency and lie to get in get information

Pharming

Poisoning a DNS to redirect users from a legitimate site to a fraudulent one

Vishing

Phishing done over the phone

Smishing

SMS Phishing

Spear Phishing

Targeted attacks that use inside information to seem more believable

Whaling

Phishing attacks that go after large clients, usually CFO’s

Watering Hole Attack

Attackers infect a third-party website that many users frequent and infect them with malware so it can spread to the organization they want to attack