Security News > 2020 > March > There Are Plenty of Phish in the Sea

Today, for modest amounts of money, would-be scammers can buy high-quality phishing tools online, through the Dark Web, enabling them to skip all the fuss and bother of actually learning how to code or do graphics or any of the other steps required to successfully scam someone.

There the price of a phishing page averaged $338. Phishing - essentially stealing sensitive information like passwords, credentials, reset notifications and other forms of access through trickery - is the single most common form of online attack.

These templates can be combined with complete phishing kits - all-in-one tool sets that have everything someone would need to launch an attack: ready-built websites, spoofed login pages, trackers, spam lists, even compromised servers and botnets - which can be bought outright or on an as-needed basis through as-a-service platforms.

Successful phishers perform detailed online reconnaissance so they can craft the most effective emails and social engineering lures.

Monitor for registrations of typo-squatted domain names that look like yours which attackers can use to impersonate your brand, send spoofed emails, and host phishing pages.

News URL

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Securityweek/~3/V4CcKvXr2Hk/there-are-plenty-phish-sea