Phishing attacks
Social engineering is a mainstay tactic for attackers around the world. Phishing is at the intersection of two of the cybersecurity usual suspects; social engineering and weak, leaked, and stolen passwords. Many of the largest data breaches in history started with a phishing attack. In simple terms, phishing is a social engineering tactic where the attacker tries to trick their victim into sharing confidential information with them. Attackers use emails, websites, and advertising to entice people into disclosing account credentials, personal details, credit card and financial account information, among other things. The information that victims disclose might be used to illegally access online accounts, conduct illegal financial transactions, and steal the victims' identities, among other purposes.
Some attackers cast an indiscriminate wide net for their phishing attacks to snare as many people as possible in order to increase the odds of success. Some attackers...
