REVIEW PAPER ON PHISHING ATTACKS

Aathi oli .S Mohammed Raeesul irfan C. Vijayalakshmi
oliaathi@gmail.comphilosuave@gmail.comvijayalakshmi@crescent.education
B. S. Abdur Rahman Crescent Institute Of Science And Technology

ABSTRACT

Phishing may be a cybercrime, which involves luring the user into providing sensitive and confidential informa- tion to the attacker. the data could include mastercard details, username and passwords, bank details, etc. After obtaining the knowledge, the attacker could commit crimes like financial losses and identity thefts. The target might be a private, a corporation or a cluster in a company. This paper provides an evidence on phishing attacks to make awareness and several other countermeasures to beat them.

Keywords: Phishing, deceptive and spear phishing, whaling, pharming, anti-phishing techniques.

1.INTRODUCTION

A field of knowledge Technology is Cyber Security that aims at the protection of knowledge, systems, network, etc., from the varied attacks. Cyber Security is one in all the key concerns in today’s information technology world. It also aims at the prevention of unauthorized access to sensitive data. Data is prone to various attacks while in transit and while stored. These attacks, both existing and upcoming, pose a wonderful threat to industries and individuals. Since, industries rely heavily on computers for his or her functionalities, confidential and sensitive information must be protected. Various Cyber Security techniques and tools provide this protection of knowledge while it’s stored and in transit.

The threats and vulnerabilities, together with the value of detecting and fixing the bugs, have consistently been increasing over the past 20 years. This has led to loss of holding, loss of reputation and revenue, transmission of security vulnerabilities, etc. the price encountered for overcoming such security attacks have escalated from $27.4 billion to $66 billion in eight years.

The attackers use various methods like loophole in applications as gateway to require advantage of the vulnerabilities, which help them to understand unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Phishing involves sending fraudulent emails to a target that appear to come back from a creditable source. a private or several individuals called phishers or attackers orchestrate the attack. The individuals who are stricken by the attack are called victims or targets. The goal of phishing is to collect sensitive data, like login credentials or checking account details or install malware into the target’s system. Investigating such a fancy attack is extremely challenging to the cybersecurity experts. Phishing attacks are often performed manually but to over- come the attack and to reply effectively to the attack requires a lot of some time , intelligence and manpower. this could take days or perhaps weeks to reply and analyze the attack thorough. Manual investigation has lot of dependency on the safety analyst’s talents and tools avail- able for investigation. Moreover, these manual investigations get it wrong because of human errors.
Commonly called the Amazon Prime Day phishing attack, the knowledge of the shoppers of Amazon was compromised by a phishing attack. All the Amazon Prime members received an email that consisted of seemingly legitimate deals to them. On trying to get the ‘deals’, the transaction would fail, promoting the attackers to achieve sensitive information on the user.

Another common example is Google Docs invitation. In May 2017, attackers sent fraudulent invitations to google users across the globe to edit documents. When the recipients clicked the invitation, it led to a third party app that facilitated attackers to urge tip .

2. PHISHING MECHANISM
The motive of phishing attack is to govern the attacker into providing lead about him/her. To perform such an attack, the attacker or phisher mimics a legitimate website. To mimic the web- site, he/she constructs a malicious site employing a phishing website. This phishing website would gather all the in- formation on the target and provide it to the attacker [11]. Usually, the targets are unable to differentiate between genuine and phishing websites causing them to constitute the traps set by the phisher.


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