Seminar
On
Phishing
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Professor 16W91A05F5
Introduction
Phishing Techniques
Phishing Examples
Types of Phishing
Causes of Phishing
Anti Phishing
Effects of Phishing
Defend against Phishing Attacks
Conclusion
Reference
Phishing is the act of attempting to acquire
information such as username, password
and credit card details as a trustworthy
entity in an electronic communication.
Communications purporting to be from
popular social web sites ,auction sites,
online payment process or IT administrators
are commonly used to lure the unsuspecting
public .Phishing emails may contain links to
websites that are infected with malware.
LINK MANIPULATION
FILTER EVASION
WEBSITE FORGERY
PHONE PHISHING
In this example, targeted at South Trust Bank users, the
phisher has used an image to make it harder for anti-
phishing filters to detect by scanning for text commonly
used in phishing emails.
Deceptive - Sending a deceptive email, in bulk, with a “call
to action” that demands the recipient click on a link.
Malware-Based - Running malicious software on the
user’s machine. Various forms of malware-based phishing are:
Key Loggers & Screen Loggers
Session Hijackers
Web Trojans
Data Theft
DNS-Based - Phishing that interferes with the integrity of
the lookup process for a domain name. Forms of DNS-based
phishing are:
Hosts file poisoning
Polluting user’s DNS cache
Proxy server compromise
Man-in-the-Middle Phishing - Phisher positions himself
between the user and the legitimate site.
Content-Injection – Inserting malicious content into legitimate site.
Three primary types of content-injection phishing:
Hackers can compromise a server through a security
vulnerability and replace or augment the legitimate content with
malicious content.
Malicious content can be inserted into a site through a cross-site
scripting vulnerability.
Malicious actions can be performed on a site through a SQL
injection vulnerability.
Misleading e-mails
No check of source address
Vulnerability in browsers
No strong authentication at websites of banks and
financial institutions
Limited use of digital signatures
Non-availability of secure desktop tools
Lack of user awareness
Vulnerability in applications
A. Socialresponses
B. Technical approaches
• 1. Helping to identify legitimate websites.
• 2. Browsers alerting users to fraudulent websites.
• 3. Eliminating Phishing mail.
• 4. Monitoring and takedown.
C. Legal approaches
Internet fraud
Identity theft
Financial loss to the original institutions
Difficulties in Law Enforcement Investigations
Erosion of Public Trust in the Internet.
Preventing a phishing attack before it begins
Detecting a phishing attack
Preventing the delivery of phishing messages
Preventing deception in phishing messages and sites
Counter measures
Interfering with the use of compromised information
No single technology will completely stop phishing.
However, a combination of good organization and
practice, proper application of current technologies,
and improvements in security technology has the
potential to drastically reduce the prevalence of
phishing and the losses suffered from it.
Thank you