What is Phishing Attack? | Is it Legal? | How hackers perform this attack?

by - July 22, 2020

What is Phishing ?

As the name suggest that phishing (Fishing = Capturing of Fish) here fish means the victim or you can say the person on which this attack has done. Means you get the confidential data of someone by pretending a legal source. For example you get a phishing link of Facebook pretending that the link is verified. But still the link is very dangerous. As you tap on it and give the details your data can be easily hacked. So phishing is all about pretending a legal source but not.

Is Phishing Legal?

Well, any type of hacking which exceeds the ethics limit is illegal, talking about phishing if you are performing this attack for educational purpose (means not for any illegal cause) it can be classify as legal but if you are doing it for a very wrong cause it is illegal. This type of attack is very famous between the teenager as they mostly do pranks on their friends and family. But sometimes this prank take a wrong turn. People use third party hosting for the phishing attack and they actually loose there data instead of getting someone's data.

Can You Perform Phishing?

As I said if it's for just for knowledge purpose you can perform this attack. But you should well aware about the ethics related to it. Because you will actually disturbing someone's privacy by performing this attack. The needs for this attacks are very simple and can be easily done. 

How Hackers Perform This?

There is very few and simple steps which hackers do to perform a phishing attack. 
They generally follow these steps:-
  • They create a webpage through html or from third party hosting. (They try there best to make look original)
  • Then , they add a backdoor it that page. (In simple way you can say they add a messenger type service which would send the data if some enters.)
  • They mostly create a sense of victory to victim so that victim could add there details. (For example:- "You had won a Lottery of 100$ tap on this link to continue." and most people tap on it.)
  • Hackers mostly shorts the links to look more original.

  • And by following this steps perfectly hackers get access to your account.


How to be safe from Phishing?

There are some general techniques which you can use to be safe form the phishing attacks.
  • Don't trust on any link
Do not trust any link whether it sent by your best friends or from your relatives. Think about the link before clicking on that.
  • Always try to open SSL certified websites
To know that whether the site is SSL certified or not you just need to see the padlock icon on the address bar or simply see the "https" remember the "s" is important because many links start with "http"
  • Analyze the webpage
If you had opened any link firstly analyze the page , analyze the web address and also see the little things. For example the original site name is "www.original.com" and the link which you got is "www.original..com" So, you can clearly see there's a extra '.' in the fake link. 


These were the three general steps by which you can be safe form phishing.

How Phishing sites looks like?

So let's take example of Facebook here to understand. There are the some images of fake sites

 



What you see in the image is actually a fake link pretending be of facebook. But you can clearly analyze the site and get to know that it's fake.


So these were some tips and information about the phishing attack. Stay Safe from this types of attacks.





 

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12 Comments

  1. Anonymous22 July 2020 at 20:41

    Great information and appreciation to you to spread awareness about this major topic.

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    1. Vedant Nathani22 July 2020 at 20:43

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  2. Unknown22 July 2020 at 20:44

    Well explained, As you've writed here only For educational Purposes.but now no one takes these things for educational purposes. Every one wants to see another's data without knowing them. No one from them know this that it is illegal. Thanks for the knowledge.

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    1. Vedant Nathani22 July 2020 at 21:16

      Everything is made for knowledge but people use it wrong way.. I hope my information will not be used for any illegal cause.. And Thanks a lot for giving your precious time to read my blog😇

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  3. Comrade Rajeev22 July 2020 at 20:49

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    1. Vedant Nathani22 July 2020 at 21:17

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  4. Unknown24 July 2020 at 11:52

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