bswa week13 p13 final

Running Head: PHISHING CYBERCRIME

PHISHING CYBERCRIME 2

PHISHING CYBERCRIME ABSTRACT

Deepika

04/07/2021

ABSTRACT

Cybercrime has increased lately and individuals, companies, and organizations are working extremely to employ strategies that can help prevent their systems from being hacked. In most cases, cybercrimes are committed by individuals who are technically skilled and use advanced skills to attack a victim. Phishing is a form of cybercrime conducted by fraudsters to gather confidential information such as passwords, pins, and bank account numbers to scam the victim. Some used phishing techniques include; spear phishing, email, link manipulation, Trojan, session hijacking, and content injection. In this study, we will explore the email phishing technique and how it's used to obtain confidential information of the user. Hackers imitate their victims by promoting them as official persons by sending emails or using other communication mediums. In this type of attack, hackers send malevolent attachments by use of phishing emails that can perform various functions such as capturing the login credentials of the victim. The victims of these malicious attacks are negatively impacted by the emails sent to them due to money lost and identity theft.

From the study, the results described ways in which people can detect whether the sent emails are legitimate or not. One, when the email is poorly written, the email might be a scam and cyber hackers use this kind of email to target the most gullible individuals. An email can be a scam if it’s sent from a public email domain. People need to understand that no genuine company can send an email from a public domain address such as @gmail.com. Also, phishing hackers use messages that create a sense of urgency and if you are not keen enough on those messages, hackers can fall to you with ease thus it's very crucial for people to be more cautious and pay attention to emails they receive.