Practical Network Scanning
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Phishing

Phishing is a form of online fraud where you receive an email that looks similar to a trusted source. The message may ask you to validate, confirm, or update your account information by logging into fake websites. Targets are contacted via telephone, email, and text message, which are used to extract credit card details and passwords.

This is my own email box, which contains a message stating that I am supposed to get 13,17422 INR, and I need to update my details. While the attacker is using money as a temptation tool, it is important to think instead about your IT return. Is this type of mail really to be expected from the IT department? You can easily guess that this is not a genuine domain just by looking at the email header. Following the instructions of this message can consequently have disastrous consequences: