Phishing
Phishing is an act of stealing someone’s personal information such as usernames, passwords, credit card details, account details, & other sensitive information by behaving as a trustworthy entity. Most attackers associate phishing with email messages which spoof or mimic credit card companies, auction sites such as eBay, online business sites like amazon & flip kart, etc. This email messages seems so real from the content of the message that it is difficult to conclude whether it is real or fake message. Phishing is an use of social engineering tactics to trick victims into revealing sensitive informations. There are many types of phishing such as Deceptive phishing, Malware-based phishing, keyloggers, session hijacking, Web Trojans and many more.
Deceptive phishing
Emails are broadcasted to a wide group of people asking the need to verify banking account information, system failure require to re-enter their personal information, fictitious account charges. The victims easily get fooled by this emails and reveal their personal information by responding to this emails.
Keyloggers
It is a practice of recording the key struck on the keyboard typically in a secret manner so that the person using the keyboard is unaware that such action are being monitored. Keyloggers is quicker and easier way of capturing the passwords and monitoring the victims actions.