What type of attack involves a Web site created with the intent to offer fake products to capture information from potential buyers?

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A type of fraud whereby a criminal attempts to trick their victim into accepting a false identity presented by the criminal. The common application of this approach is to send fake e-mails to a victim purporting to come from a legitimate source and requesting information or directing the victim to a fake Internet website where this information can be captured. Learn more in: Ransomware: A New Cyber Hijacking Threat to Enterprises

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Use of emails to entice users to either open an attachment containing embedded malicious code or ‘click on a link’ representing a URL of a server under an attacker’s control that can land malware onto the victim’s client. Spear phishing is the targeted distribution of spoof emails to a target audience. Learn more in: An Analysis of Industry 4.0

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This type of attack involves hackers sending malicious email attachments or URLs to users to gain access to their accounts or computer. Cybercriminals are becoming more established and many of these emails are not flagged as spam. Users are tricked into emails claiming they need to change their password or update their billing information, giving criminals access. Learn more in: The Vulnerability of Children in Cyberspace

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“Phishing is an e-mail fraud method in which the perpetrator sends out legitimate-looking email in an attempt to gather personal and financial information from recipients” (definition provided by Search Security, as cited in Ross, 2016). Malware emails can be used for phishing (Pickett, 2012). Phishing does not only targets customers or clients, it also targets. Learn more in: Detection and Prevention of Fraud in the Digital Era

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Phishing refers to the use of emails and websites to ‘fish’ for personal information such as credit card numbers, back account information and passwords to use for fraudulent purposes. Learn more in: Cyber-Victimization

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A form of spoofing, where users are tricked into providing personal identification information because thieves have stolen the “look and feel” of a legitimate site. Learn more in: Online Privacy Issues

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Phishing as “a type of attack that communicates socially engineered messages to humans via electronic communication channels in order to persuade them to perform certain actions for the attacker’s benefit” ( Bottazzi et al., 2015 ). Learn more in: Mobile Apps Threats

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An activity based upon social engineering, where perpetuators or phishers attempt to exploit the trustworthiness of individuals to reveal personal information, such as user name, passwords, credit card numbers, banking information, and so forth. Communications is attempted by several means - e-mail, phone, letters - but most often carried out by e-mail due to the ease and relative ease in which phishers can obtain mailing lists with thousands of e-mail addresses. Phishing techniques are varied and often very business looking stating that your financial institution needs you to update your records immediately or your account will be locked. Phishers do not really know your banking institution, but after they send out 10,000 e-mails, the chances are good that some of those e-mail addresses actually conduct business with the named institution in the e-mail. It is the unsuspected individual who does not identify this as such, and instead of calling his or her financial institution, offers their valuable information, often at a Web site that looks identical to their main institution. Learn more in: Combating Computer Fraud

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Phishing refers to the use of emails and websites to ‘fish’ for personal information such as credit card numbers, back account information and passwords to use for fraudulent purposes. Learn more in: Cyber Identity Theft

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An activity based upon social engineering, where perpetuators or phishers attempt to exploit the trustworthiness of individuals to reveal personal information, such as user name, passwords, credit card numbers, banking information, and so forth. Communications are attempted by several means - e-mail, phone, letters - but most often carried out by e-mail due to the ease and relative ease in which phishers can obtain mailing lists with thousands of e-mail addresses. Phishing techniques are varied and often very business looking stating that your financial institution needs you to update your records immediately or your account will be locked. Phishers do not really know your banking institution, but after they send out 10,000 e-mails, the chances are good that some of those e-mail addresses actually conduct business with the named institution in the e-mail. It is the unsuspected individual who does not identify this as such, and instead of calling his or her financial institution, offers their valuable information, often at a Web site that looks identical to their main institution. Learn more in: Understanding Computer Security

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A form of cyberattack that aims at obtaining sensitive information (e.g., usernames, passwords, credit card numbers) by the impersonation of trustworthy entities. Learn more in: Digital Security Strategy

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The use of social engineering in e-mails for the purpose of deceiving the recipient into either compromising sensitive information or following a set of instructions that leads to a security breach. Learn more in: Designing Antiphishing Education

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Phishing is the fraudulent attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication. Learn more in: Digital Forensics and Data Mining

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