COMPUTER THREATS SECURITY
WHAT IS PHISHING
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Criminal practice of social influence over the telephone system
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sophisticated type of crime-ware applications that perform automated tasks
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Obtaining secrets from individuals for military, political, or economic advantage
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Malicious technique of tricking a web user into clicking something different from what user precieves
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Detailed explanation-1: -The correct answer is vishing. Vishing: Vishing is a cyber crime that uses the phone to steal personal confidential information from victims. Often referred to as voice phishing, cyber criminals use savvy social engineering tactics to convince victims to act, giving up private information and access to bank accounts.
Detailed explanation-2: -Phishing uses emails and links, smishing uses text messages or common messaging apps, and vishing uses voice calls and voicemails to obtain sensitive information.
Detailed explanation-3: -Vishing is another common form of phishing that’s done through calls instead of written texts. It used to be easy to spot fraudulent calls. The calls would have a sense of urgency to them, be unprompted, and impersonate a legitimate brands or government agencies.
Detailed explanation-4: -Vishing is defined as a cybersecurity attack where a malicious entity contacts the victim over the phone and tries to gain their trust through social engineering practices to elicit confidential data, extract funds, or harm the individual in any other way.
Detailed explanation-5: -Vishing is the criminal practice of using social influence over the telephone system, most often using features facilitated by Voice over IP (VoIP), to gain access to sensitive information such as credit card details from the public. The term is a combination of “Voice” and phishing.