Chapter 1 Flashcards
Spear phishing
Is targeting certain employees
Whaling is
Targeting high level employees or senior management
Vishing targets
Cell phones telephones and voip systems
Smishing
Uses sms texting as the vector
Common phishing indicators are
Vague salutations
Suspicious domains
(Bec) Business Email Compromise
Is a form of attack that targets companies, who outsource conduct wire transfers and have suppliers abroad
Common BEC schemes
Phony invoices and transfers
Fraud of the CEO or the C team
Email or webmail compromise
Pharming
Is a blending of phishing and family that describes a type of cyber crime live phishing
Spam
Is junk email
Comment spam
A spammer uses software like scrape box or some other bot to blast your favorite sites comments
Phishing is ?
A cyber attack that uses disguised email as a vector