A Review on Phishing Attacks

摘要

Phishing is a cybercrime, which involves luring the user into providing sensitive and confidential information to the attacker. The information could include credit card details, username and passwords, bank details, etc. These phishing attacks occur through malicious emails, text messages and telephone calls. After obtaining the information, the attacker could commit crimes such as financial losses and identity thefts. The target could be an individual, an organization or a cluster in an organization. This paper provides an explanation on phishing attacks to create awareness and several countermeasures to overcome them.