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Someone who is pretending to be someone to gain trust is
impersonator
When an attacker tries to exploit your email to gain acces creditiditals
Phishing- email they try and gain information
What is it called when the attacker changes the URL?
Typosquatting, prepend is the beggining being changed
When the e-mail lies to yout to exploit emotions to click on the phising email.
Pre-text
when attacker wants to take over a large group in phising
pharmer
when clicking on the email and it takes you to another website that copies everything you type in.
redirect
attack ove rthe voice line it looks like a locoal phone number is calling but its not
Vishing
attacker entice you ckick a link through a text messga
smishing
gather info on victim from social media linked in etc. to make up a pretext
reconnaissance
an attack with inside information to make it more believable
targeted phishing
spear fishing the CEO is also called
whaling it targets someone like a CFO who has all credited or valuable credentials
often seen with vishing attackers will extract information from the victim
eliciting
throwing away mail or any personal information in the trash attackers who do this can find it
dumpster diving
people can look over your shoulder peaking with their eyes to see the information on the screen
shoulder surfing
a threat that doesn’t actually exist, but seem like they could be ex: needing to update software after typing to the wrong URL
hoaxes
infect a third party site to victimize all its visit that visit the site
watering hole attack
layered defense helps what attack firewalls and IPS anti-virus/anti-malware signature updates
watering hole attack
unsolicited messages emails forums can contain phishing attempt
spam
what helps filter spam before it goes to the internal server
mail gateway
checks the ip address and makes sure its trusted if not it blocks the ip addres
reverse DNS rDNS
slows down the mail server to take a lot of time and also slows down their server
tarpitting
blcoks all recipent that are not
reciepient filerting