There’s More Than One Way to Go Phishing

We’ve all gotten phished before. Phishing is the practice of using fraudulent emails and copies of legitimate websites to extract private data from users for illegal or malicious reasons. Every email user at some point in time will get some sort of phishing email. It’s nearly guaranteed, and their frequency is increasing each day.

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SMiShing — Social Engineering Attack

SMiShing or SMS phishing is a social engineering attack that is occurring more and more frequently. This attack attempts to either steal identity details, credential information, or credit card specifics. It can also be used to trick you into agreeing to additional charges on your mobile phone bill. Generally the attack is waged by sending targets (i.e. you) a Web URL or a phone number along with a statement that expresses urgency to establish content or respond to the message.

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