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title: "PHISHING ATTACK"  
description: "What is phishing attack :Phishing is a type of social engineering attack through email, telephone, text massage for access all credentials, credit car"  
author: "Prakash nidhi Verma"  
published: 2018-06-14  
updated: 2018-06-14  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11810/phishing-attack  
category: "phishing"  
tags: ["http", "https", "computer science", "cybersecurity", "phishing", "spamming"]  
reading_time: 2 minutes  

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# PHISHING ATTACK

![PHISHING ATTACK](https://www.mindstick.com/blogs/c9bb0060-320c-420b-8f02-104288e0dee1/images/eae9fbb1-6a60-40be-8b53-949c3ded828e.jpg)

## What is phishing attack :

Phishing is a type of social engineering attack through email, telephone, text massage for access all credentials, credit card number, data, and logins by unauthorized way.

![PHISHING ATTACK](https://www.mindstick.com/blogs/c9bb0060-320c-420b-8f02-104288e0dee1/images/76dea335-b44d-4e94-8ed0-11cfbc51c322.png)\

Unauthorized person like hackers use this technique. they create a fake or mimic email but that look like as a actual mail or massages and send to you from spoofed [organization](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/100623/what-is-the-role-of-the-world-health-organization-in-global-health), that email received in spam box . That's emails having [malicious](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/303209/discover-effective-strategies-for-recognizing-and-dodging-malicious-urls) link, which can lead to the [installation](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/711/php-installation-on-windows) of malware, the freezing of the system as part of a [ransomware](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/11423/how-to-protect-yourself-from-wannacry-ransomware-or-any-malware) attack or the revealing of sensitive information with just clicking by you. After clicked on link your credentials will be generate in hackers computer.

![PHISHING ATTACK](https://www.mindstick.com/blogs/c9bb0060-320c-420b-8f02-104288e0dee1/images/4c4e2485-91de-45b4-b89d-c1aedf3e9329.png)\

That's mail mainly received with HTTP:// URLs means not secured but normally websites having with HTTPS:// urls means secure by Hyper text transfer protocol so look very carefully before clicked on any this type of spam or link.

![PHISHING ATTACK](https://www.mindstick.com/blogs/c9bb0060-320c-420b-8f02-104288e0dee1/images/2c2c47dc-fb7c-4a07-87f0-df1eef3f74ac.jpg)

Phishing have mainly two purpose:

## 1-E-mail [phishing scams](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/103645/how-to-avoid-phishing-scams) :

E-mail phishing is a like numbers game. An attacker sending out thousands of uncleared messages can net significant information and sums of money, even if only a small percentage of recipients fall for the scam.They Use the same phrasing, typefaces, logos, and signatures makes the messages appear legitimate but that's all is fake.

## 2-spear phishing :

In this phising technique targets are always a [specific person](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32554/when-i-tweet-do-i-address-it-to-a-specific-person-or-am-i-putting-it-out-there-to-anyone-who-is-paying-attention-https-blog-hubspot-com-marketing-twitter-faqs-tweetsmarter) or [enterprise](https://www.mindstick.com/blog/246/enterprise-java-beans-ejb) with belongs to a [application](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12824/calculator-application-in-android) users. It’s a very depth version of phishing that requires special knowledge about an organization, and about its internal power structure.

Using Technique/way for phishing:

- sense of urgency

- Hyperlinks

- Attachments

- Unusual sender

As seen above, that's some [techniques](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13015/5-practical-tips-and-techniques-to-write-an-essay) attackers use to increase their success rates and values.

i hope, this blog is interesting for all of you...if you seen any mistake [please tell me](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/33900/please-tell-me-what-are-the-technique-to-content-optimization) through drop a comment below down.

Happy Coding :)

![PHISHING ATTACK](https://www.mindstick.com/blogs/c9bb0060-320c-420b-8f02-104288e0dee1/images/dc69de6d-693c-4881-92f5-734055ca1a2d.jpg)\

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