Phishing is an attempt to illegally obtain important and confidential information such as personal data, financial data or even user account data. Personal data such as full name, place of birth, age, place of residence and others. Financial data such as credit card information, virtual payment account information, digital wallets and others. As well as user account data such as account names and passwords for digital platforms such as Instagram, Facebook and others.
The term phishing itself in English comes from the word fishing (fishing), in this case it means fishing for important user information, both confidential information.
This phishing is very dangerous because in general the main goal of these hackers is to get some money by selling confidential information that has been obtained through phishing to third parties or the black market on the internet community network, committing criminal acts such as fraud, extortion and so on under the name data from the targets that have been stolen before or even some of them ask for ransom of money directly from the targets with the threat of erasing the data they have locked with encryption. This is very detrimental to the target who has been phished, not only that their data is stolen but they can also lose money and can even become suspect of crimes they did not actually commit. Target victims are not only individuals but also targeting large companies and it is possible for your company to become the next target.
This should be our common concern, Cyber Crime through phishing methods is increasingly threatening our surfing activities on the internet. This is evidenced by several research results that have been carried out by Google which ended in 2020 saying that in the period January 2017 to July 2020 there was an increase in the trend of phishing, especially phishing sites compared to the spread of malware itself. Most likely, this Phishing or Web Phishing site uses the theme of Covid-19 information to trick the target, whose spike has increased by 350% from January 2020 to March 2020.
Reference: Google
From the data above we can see that even though every day we surf a safe site. However, we still find thousands of new unsafe sites such as many of the legitimate websites that have been compromised by hackers, or have malware that threatens the user’s security and so on.
This is one of the most well-known cyber-crime attacks and becomes everyone’s risk when all our data and information enters the world of the internet.
You have to be more vigilant with the various modes. Recognizing phishing techniques can help you avoid cyber-crime attacks. At the very least, you will be more careful. Always protect your data and the authenticity of the sites you visit.
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