Phishing Attack : When attacker pretends to be a helper.

What is Phishing?

Phishing is a tactic to get access to data or steal sensitive or confidential information generally in the form of username, password, card details, bank account information or other essential data to utilize to target as an e-commerce site customer or sell stolen information. By masquerading as a reliable source with a reason that seems legitimate, an attacker requests you to perform some actions to get access to data.

In this case, our customer get an email where the phishing actor sent him IP, date, OS, and browser details and mentioned some security issues. The attackers mentioned if he wouldn't perform the action, his account will be lost. If the user falls into this trick they can give access to the attackers to gain access to the account of the networking site or device.

They target corporates by the mediums that are being used generally in any field such as Outlook to gain access to the data of any company or the personal data of people working for any company.

Other aspects

More than 350 million users were affected the previous year by the various type of phishing attacks. The best possible way to keep yourself out of this issue or for security, users to be aware of the contents they are subscribed to or malicious links that are part of the body of contents.
The most effective way to get rid of it is to use any anti-virus that can detect these malicious activities or agents and block them.

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