Derek Rush of LBMC Information Security presented at Techfest Louisville 2017 which was hosted by the Technology Association of Louisville Kentucky (TALK.)
A novel way of integrating voice recognition and one time passwords to preven...ijdpsjournal
Phishing is a threat to all users of the internet who intend to use the web for secure transactions. In the
recent years the number of phishing attacks have increased drastically especially since the advent of ecommerce,
net banking and other services that have an emphasis on security. Phishing is characterized as
any malicious attack aided by a spoofed webpage to encourage users to input their security details.
Phishing is largely done to retrieve passwords and security details of unsuspecting users. This paper
details a new and more secure way to counteract the method of phishing
Protecting Corporete Credentials Against Threats 4 48159 wgw03071_usenCMR WORLD TECH
IBM Software Trusteer Apex software specifically protects employee credentials, which are a prime target for cybercriminals. It helps prevent credentials theft via phishing or reuse of corporate credentials on unauthorized sites. Traditional security approaches like policies, education and anti-malware are no longer sufficient, as attacks get more sophisticated. Trusteer Apex focuses on preventing transmission of credentials before they are compromised.
Study on Phishing Attacks and Antiphishing ToolsIRJET Journal
This document discusses phishing attacks and anti-phishing tools. It begins by defining phishing as fraudulent attempts to steal users' sensitive information by impersonating trustworthy entities. The document then outlines the common steps in phishing attacks, including planning, setup, attack, collection, fraud, and post-attack actions. It describes different types of phishing attacks and analyzes security issues. The document concludes by describing some popular anti-phishing tools, including Mail-Secure and the Netcraft security toolbar.
This document summarizes research on email security threats like phishing, spam and fraud. It discusses several studies that have proposed techniques to detect phishing emails using methods like blacklist/whitelist filtering, textual and URL analysis, machine learning algorithms and social engineering schemes. One study developed a Link-Guard algorithm that was able to detect 96% of anonymous phishing attacks. Another proposed a proactive approach called Pguard that aims to shut down phishing attacks at their source by warning web hosts. Future work discussed includes improving accuracy rates and automating detection and response mechanisms.
The document discusses email phishing attacks and strategies to prevent them. It defines the attack surface as all possible entry points for unauthorized access, such as vulnerabilities, devices, and network nodes. Phishing works by tricking users into clicking links or entering login credentials on fake websites that look like legitimate ones. The document recommends educating users about phishing, punishing attackers legally, detecting and blocking phishing websites, and using technical methods like spam filters to stop phishing emails. It prioritizes improving remote access policies, separating personal and work data, frequently updating security systems, strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and security training for employees.
This document discusses a study analyzing social media and stylometric features to identify spearphishing emails. The researchers extracted features from emails and linkedin profiles of recipients to classify emails as spearphishing, spam, or benign. Stylometric features from emails like attachment size and subject richness achieved over 96% accuracy distinguishing spearphishing from spam/benign emails. While social media features did not significantly improve classification, the researchers note attackers may use additional social networks to craft more effective spearphishing emails.
It gives information regarding 6 different cyber attacks which most of the people become a victim of and which part of society is affected by which attack.
It explains how this attacks are done by hackers and explains ways to prevent them.
A novel way of integrating voice recognition and one time passwords to preven...ijdpsjournal
Phishing is a threat to all users of the internet who intend to use the web for secure transactions. In the
recent years the number of phishing attacks have increased drastically especially since the advent of ecommerce,
net banking and other services that have an emphasis on security. Phishing is characterized as
any malicious attack aided by a spoofed webpage to encourage users to input their security details.
Phishing is largely done to retrieve passwords and security details of unsuspecting users. This paper
details a new and more secure way to counteract the method of phishing
Protecting Corporete Credentials Against Threats 4 48159 wgw03071_usenCMR WORLD TECH
IBM Software Trusteer Apex software specifically protects employee credentials, which are a prime target for cybercriminals. It helps prevent credentials theft via phishing or reuse of corporate credentials on unauthorized sites. Traditional security approaches like policies, education and anti-malware are no longer sufficient, as attacks get more sophisticated. Trusteer Apex focuses on preventing transmission of credentials before they are compromised.
Study on Phishing Attacks and Antiphishing ToolsIRJET Journal
This document discusses phishing attacks and anti-phishing tools. It begins by defining phishing as fraudulent attempts to steal users' sensitive information by impersonating trustworthy entities. The document then outlines the common steps in phishing attacks, including planning, setup, attack, collection, fraud, and post-attack actions. It describes different types of phishing attacks and analyzes security issues. The document concludes by describing some popular anti-phishing tools, including Mail-Secure and the Netcraft security toolbar.
This document summarizes research on email security threats like phishing, spam and fraud. It discusses several studies that have proposed techniques to detect phishing emails using methods like blacklist/whitelist filtering, textual and URL analysis, machine learning algorithms and social engineering schemes. One study developed a Link-Guard algorithm that was able to detect 96% of anonymous phishing attacks. Another proposed a proactive approach called Pguard that aims to shut down phishing attacks at their source by warning web hosts. Future work discussed includes improving accuracy rates and automating detection and response mechanisms.
The document discusses email phishing attacks and strategies to prevent them. It defines the attack surface as all possible entry points for unauthorized access, such as vulnerabilities, devices, and network nodes. Phishing works by tricking users into clicking links or entering login credentials on fake websites that look like legitimate ones. The document recommends educating users about phishing, punishing attackers legally, detecting and blocking phishing websites, and using technical methods like spam filters to stop phishing emails. It prioritizes improving remote access policies, separating personal and work data, frequently updating security systems, strong passwords, multi-factor authentication, and security training for employees.
This document discusses a study analyzing social media and stylometric features to identify spearphishing emails. The researchers extracted features from emails and linkedin profiles of recipients to classify emails as spearphishing, spam, or benign. Stylometric features from emails like attachment size and subject richness achieved over 96% accuracy distinguishing spearphishing from spam/benign emails. While social media features did not significantly improve classification, the researchers note attackers may use additional social networks to craft more effective spearphishing emails.
It gives information regarding 6 different cyber attacks which most of the people become a victim of and which part of society is affected by which attack.
It explains how this attacks are done by hackers and explains ways to prevent them.
Symantec & WSJ PRESENTS "MALWARE on Main Street" ...MZERMA Amine
SPECIAL REPORT : SECURE BUSINESS ...
How-to avoid being hostage of ransomware attacks ?
How-to preserve collaborators work, identities, access ?
"WHY CYBER PROTECTION CAN'T WAIT ?!"
This SPECIAL report from our Partner SYMANTEC, realized in collaboration with WSJ CUSTOM Studios is really a NEED to Read for ALL Executives, Leaders, Influencers, Owners, Admins, ...
Spear phishing attacks are a growing problem because they are highly targeted and effective at tricking users into revealing sensitive information or installing malware. Spear phishing emails impersonate trusted sources and use personal details of targets to bypass filters. A famous example is the 2011 RSA attack, where a spear phishing email downloaded malware that ultimately compromised several defense contractors. To stop these advanced attacks, organizations need integrated security across email and web that uses dynamic analysis to detect zero-day exploits and block malicious files and network callbacks, while also providing threat intelligence.
The document discusses various cybersecurity threats faced by organizations and provides recommendations to help protect against these threats. It describes examples of companies that suffered damages from cyber attacks like data theft and malware infections. Common cyber attacks mentioned include computer viruses, trojan horses, password grabbing, and phishing scams. The document recommends practices like security awareness training, firewalls, regular software updates, and data backups to help prevent cyber attacks. It warns about risks of using public wireless networks and potential scams targeting businesses.
Dealing with the threat of spoof and phishing mail attacks part 6#9 | Eyal ...Eyal Doron
In the following article, we will review the solution and the methods that we can use for dealing with the threat of – Phishing mail attacks and his derivative Spoof mail attack.
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to target email users and steal personal information. Google reports blocking over 180 million phishing emails per day related to coronavirus. The emails try to trick users into providing passwords, credit card details, and other sensitive data. Cybersecurity experts warn that criminals are exploiting people's emotional response to the pandemic through fake websites, mobile apps, and emails posing as official organizations. Users are advised to be cautious of unsolicited emails, downloads, and websites during this time.
I take no credit with the templates and the designs used. They were originally from a "Duarte" presentation. Just copied it since I don't have much time. Hope to part some knowledge. Ciao~
Thanks "Duarte"!
Web phish detection (an evolutionary approach)eSAT Journals
Abstract Phishing is nothing but one of the kinds of network crimes. This paper presents an efficient approach for detecting phishing web documents based on learning from a large number of phishing webs. Phishing means to make something fraud with someone, usually by using internet with the help of emails, to take our personal information, such as credentials. The finest way to protect ourselves and our credentials from phishing attack is to understand the concept of phishing as well as to understand that how to determine a phishing attack. Most of the phishing emails are sent from well-reputed organizations and they ask for your credentials such as credit card number, account number, social security number and passwords of bank account. Mostly the phishing attacks seen from the websites, services and organizations with which we do not even have an account. In this system we are using two classifiers to detect phishing. To recognize the phishing, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) features of the website are firstly analyzed and then they are classified by using K-means classifier. If the answer is still suspicious then by using parsing of the webpage, its DOM tree is drawn and then the second classifier that is Naive Bayesian (NB) classifier classifies the web page. Key Words: phishing, phishing emails, classifier
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document provides guidance on identifying and preventing the spread of malware through emails. It discusses how malicious emails try to trick recipients through spoofing, phishing links and attachments. Examples are given of common types of malicious emails, like those disguised as package tracking notifications but containing viruses. The document advises users to be wary of emails from unknown senders or containing strange formatting, links or large attachments meant to infect computers. Proper precautions can help safeguard systems from data loss or theft resulting from malware spread through emails.
Phishing attacks are a major problem for organizations, as most data breaches start with a phishing email. Attackers use sophisticated social engineering techniques to target individuals through email, websites, USB drives, phone calls, and social media. When users fall for these attacks by clicking links or opening attachments, their devices become compromised and allow attackers to access organizational networks and steal confidential data. To protect against phishing, organizations must implement security awareness training for employees and multilayered technical defenses.
The document discusses security risks to networks from both internal and external threats. It notes that internal threats from employees may pose an even greater risk than external hackers. The document advocates for a layered security approach using technologies like firewalls, antivirus software, web filtering, intrusion detection, and AI tools to automate tasks and improve security efficiency while reducing demands on IT staff. It provides examples of real security incidents caused by disgruntled or negligent employees accessing inappropriate content or leaking sensitive information.
IRJET- Phishing and Anti-Phishing TechniquesIRJET Journal
This document discusses phishing attacks and anti-phishing techniques. It begins by defining phishing as a social engineering attack where attackers fool victims into entering sensitive information on fake websites. It then describes various types of phishing attacks, including spear phishing, whaling, and clone phishing. The document also outlines common phishing techniques used by attackers, such as impersonating legitimate websites and using pop-up windows. Finally, it mentions that anti-phishing techniques aim to detect and prevent phishing attacks by recognizing spoofed emails and fraudulent websites.
In spite of the development of aversion strategies, phishing remains an essential risk even after the
primary countermeasures and in view of receptive URL blacklisting. This strategy is insufficient because of the
short lifetime of phishing websites. In order to overcome this problem, developing a real-time phishing website
detection method is an effective solution. This research introduces the PrePhish algorithm which is an automated
machine learning approach to analyze phishing and non-phishing URL to produce reliable result. It represents that
phishing URLs typically have couple of connections between the part of the registered domain level and the path
or query level URL. Using these connections URL is characterized by inter-relatedness and it estimates using
features mined from attributes. These features are then used in machine learning technique to detect phishing
URLs from a real dataset. The classification of phishing and non-phishing website has been implemented by
finding the range value and threshold value for each attribute using decision making classification. This method is
also evaluated in Matlab using three major classifiers SVM, Random Forest and Naive Bayes to find how it works
on the dataset assessed
The document discusses phishing, which refers to attempts by criminals to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising themselves as a trustworthy entity through fraudulent emails or websites. It provides details on how phishing works, what information phishers typically ask for, signs of phishing messages to watch out for, and steps individuals can take to protect themselves, including using antivirus software, firewalls, and caution when receiving suspicious emails or entering information on websites.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
*
Compiled and designed by Mark Fullbright, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist™ (CITRMS) as a free service for consumers to protect themselves online and reduce their exposure to identity theft. Stay Safe, Stay Secure
Most users do not see front-line activity and 'normal business usage' to be a contributing factor to network security; but it's not all about the back-end. Business behavior is a direct impact to business information system risks.
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where attackers masquerade as trusted entities to trick victims into opening malicious links or revealing sensitive information. This can lead to malware installation, ransomware attacks, or identity theft of individuals. For organizations, phishing is often used to gain access to corporate or government networks, bypassing security to distribute malware or steal privileged data. While phishing targets individuals, it can severely damage organizations through financial losses, declining market share and reputation from security incidents. Two-factor authentication is the most effective way for enterprises to mitigate phishing and spear phishing attacks by adding an extra verification layer when logging into sensitive systems and applications.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a machine learning approach for detecting phishing websites. It discusses using heuristic features from CANTINA to train machine learning models. A new domain top-page similarity feature is introduced to improve accuracy. Various modules are described, including site training, site capturing, a phishing dictionary, and image correlation to measure similarity. Experimental results show the approach achieves up to 92.5% f-measure and a 7.5% error rate for phishing detection.
Phishing involves masquerading as a trustworthy entity to steal user credentials and sensitive information. It works by tricking users into entering private details on fake websites or in emails made to look like they came from legitimate sources. Phishing can have serious financial and privacy impacts for victims. Key prevention methods include using antivirus software, firewalls, and caution about unsolicited emails requesting sensitive data.
Article1DISCUSSION_1Information security within an organimallisonshavon
Article1:
DISCUSSION_1
Information security within an organization could be easily compromised once the access to information is given from insiders or stolen from the outsider by any means possible. Based on my experience as supervisors, managing a supermarket, I was often met with similar situations as described by the boss. Calls from individuals with presumable made-up name claiming to be as vendors who would like to supply their products to our supermarket, often turn into conversations that are related to sensitive information relating other vendors, their product, and price related questions.
Spam messages that have become identifiable normal email communicate from vendors could also pose the great security risk for the organization. According to Kaspersky, Spam emails are sent out to the recipient for spreading malicious code onto recipients’ computers and running phishing scams to obtain sensitive data like password and financial information (Kaspersky, 2018). From my previous experience, these emails are usually the cause of computer breakdown and loss of information in a couple of branches which had supervisors who had little knowledge regarding computer and Spam will using email.
As for people who have been seen searching company’s trash dumpsters for recyclable containers, it is obvious that they attempted to salvage any possible sensitive information from the company.
In this case, the management should have met within the company with employees who have direct access to company sensitive information. Inform everyone of possible attempt to breach information security and educate those who might have little knowledge of email spam.
Disposable documents through recyclable dumpsters need to be thoroughly managed to ensure that no possible information could be gathered through the trash. And lastly, ensure that employees understand their role regarding using and sharing sensitive information via telephone calls, email and hard documents to ensure information security in the company.
Below are methods an organization guarantees that its system is ensured:
Install Anti-Virus Software:
Guarantee that legitimate hostile to infection programming is introduced on all computers. This ought to incorporate all servers, computers, and workstations. On the off chance that workers utilize PCs at home for business utilize or to remotely get to the system, these computers ought to likewise have against virus programming introduced.
Ensure that the anti-virus software is up and coming:
Regular new PC viruses are being discharged and it is fundamental that organizations are shielded from these infections by keeping the counter infection programming a la mode. On the off chance that conceivable, organizations should take a gander at strategies whereby PCs that don't have the most avant-garde hostile to infection programming introduced are not permitted to interface with the system.
Employ a firewall to ensure systems:
As PC infections ...
This document discusses phishing attacks and countermeasures. It begins by defining phishing as a type of email fraud where perpetrators send seemingly legitimate emails to collect personal and financial information. It then describes how phishing works, outlining the typical stages: creating fake websites, sending phishing emails with links to these sites, and hoping victims provide sensitive data or get infected with malware when they click the links. Specific phishing scams like spear phishing, whaling, pharming, spoofing, and vishing are also explained. The document concludes by listing warning signs of phishing websites and attacks.
Symantec & WSJ PRESENTS "MALWARE on Main Street" ...MZERMA Amine
SPECIAL REPORT : SECURE BUSINESS ...
How-to avoid being hostage of ransomware attacks ?
How-to preserve collaborators work, identities, access ?
"WHY CYBER PROTECTION CAN'T WAIT ?!"
This SPECIAL report from our Partner SYMANTEC, realized in collaboration with WSJ CUSTOM Studios is really a NEED to Read for ALL Executives, Leaders, Influencers, Owners, Admins, ...
Spear phishing attacks are a growing problem because they are highly targeted and effective at tricking users into revealing sensitive information or installing malware. Spear phishing emails impersonate trusted sources and use personal details of targets to bypass filters. A famous example is the 2011 RSA attack, where a spear phishing email downloaded malware that ultimately compromised several defense contractors. To stop these advanced attacks, organizations need integrated security across email and web that uses dynamic analysis to detect zero-day exploits and block malicious files and network callbacks, while also providing threat intelligence.
The document discusses various cybersecurity threats faced by organizations and provides recommendations to help protect against these threats. It describes examples of companies that suffered damages from cyber attacks like data theft and malware infections. Common cyber attacks mentioned include computer viruses, trojan horses, password grabbing, and phishing scams. The document recommends practices like security awareness training, firewalls, regular software updates, and data backups to help prevent cyber attacks. It warns about risks of using public wireless networks and potential scams targeting businesses.
Dealing with the threat of spoof and phishing mail attacks part 6#9 | Eyal ...Eyal Doron
In the following article, we will review the solution and the methods that we can use for dealing with the threat of – Phishing mail attacks and his derivative Spoof mail attack.
Cyber criminals are taking advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic to target email users and steal personal information. Google reports blocking over 180 million phishing emails per day related to coronavirus. The emails try to trick users into providing passwords, credit card details, and other sensitive data. Cybersecurity experts warn that criminals are exploiting people's emotional response to the pandemic through fake websites, mobile apps, and emails posing as official organizations. Users are advised to be cautious of unsolicited emails, downloads, and websites during this time.
I take no credit with the templates and the designs used. They were originally from a "Duarte" presentation. Just copied it since I don't have much time. Hope to part some knowledge. Ciao~
Thanks "Duarte"!
Web phish detection (an evolutionary approach)eSAT Journals
Abstract Phishing is nothing but one of the kinds of network crimes. This paper presents an efficient approach for detecting phishing web documents based on learning from a large number of phishing webs. Phishing means to make something fraud with someone, usually by using internet with the help of emails, to take our personal information, such as credentials. The finest way to protect ourselves and our credentials from phishing attack is to understand the concept of phishing as well as to understand that how to determine a phishing attack. Most of the phishing emails are sent from well-reputed organizations and they ask for your credentials such as credit card number, account number, social security number and passwords of bank account. Mostly the phishing attacks seen from the websites, services and organizations with which we do not even have an account. In this system we are using two classifiers to detect phishing. To recognize the phishing, the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) features of the website are firstly analyzed and then they are classified by using K-means classifier. If the answer is still suspicious then by using parsing of the webpage, its DOM tree is drawn and then the second classifier that is Naive Bayesian (NB) classifier classifies the web page. Key Words: phishing, phishing emails, classifier
IJRET : International Journal of Research in Engineering and Technology is an international peer reviewed, online journal published by eSAT Publishing House for the enhancement of research in various disciplines of Engineering and Technology. The aim and scope of the journal is to provide an academic medium and an important reference for the advancement and dissemination of research results that support high-level learning, teaching and research in the fields of Engineering and Technology. We bring together Scientists, Academician, Field Engineers, Scholars and Students of related fields of Engineering and Technology
This document provides guidance on identifying and preventing the spread of malware through emails. It discusses how malicious emails try to trick recipients through spoofing, phishing links and attachments. Examples are given of common types of malicious emails, like those disguised as package tracking notifications but containing viruses. The document advises users to be wary of emails from unknown senders or containing strange formatting, links or large attachments meant to infect computers. Proper precautions can help safeguard systems from data loss or theft resulting from malware spread through emails.
Phishing attacks are a major problem for organizations, as most data breaches start with a phishing email. Attackers use sophisticated social engineering techniques to target individuals through email, websites, USB drives, phone calls, and social media. When users fall for these attacks by clicking links or opening attachments, their devices become compromised and allow attackers to access organizational networks and steal confidential data. To protect against phishing, organizations must implement security awareness training for employees and multilayered technical defenses.
The document discusses security risks to networks from both internal and external threats. It notes that internal threats from employees may pose an even greater risk than external hackers. The document advocates for a layered security approach using technologies like firewalls, antivirus software, web filtering, intrusion detection, and AI tools to automate tasks and improve security efficiency while reducing demands on IT staff. It provides examples of real security incidents caused by disgruntled or negligent employees accessing inappropriate content or leaking sensitive information.
IRJET- Phishing and Anti-Phishing TechniquesIRJET Journal
This document discusses phishing attacks and anti-phishing techniques. It begins by defining phishing as a social engineering attack where attackers fool victims into entering sensitive information on fake websites. It then describes various types of phishing attacks, including spear phishing, whaling, and clone phishing. The document also outlines common phishing techniques used by attackers, such as impersonating legitimate websites and using pop-up windows. Finally, it mentions that anti-phishing techniques aim to detect and prevent phishing attacks by recognizing spoofed emails and fraudulent websites.
In spite of the development of aversion strategies, phishing remains an essential risk even after the
primary countermeasures and in view of receptive URL blacklisting. This strategy is insufficient because of the
short lifetime of phishing websites. In order to overcome this problem, developing a real-time phishing website
detection method is an effective solution. This research introduces the PrePhish algorithm which is an automated
machine learning approach to analyze phishing and non-phishing URL to produce reliable result. It represents that
phishing URLs typically have couple of connections between the part of the registered domain level and the path
or query level URL. Using these connections URL is characterized by inter-relatedness and it estimates using
features mined from attributes. These features are then used in machine learning technique to detect phishing
URLs from a real dataset. The classification of phishing and non-phishing website has been implemented by
finding the range value and threshold value for each attribute using decision making classification. This method is
also evaluated in Matlab using three major classifiers SVM, Random Forest and Naive Bayes to find how it works
on the dataset assessed
The document discusses phishing, which refers to attempts by criminals to acquire sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising themselves as a trustworthy entity through fraudulent emails or websites. It provides details on how phishing works, what information phishers typically ask for, signs of phishing messages to watch out for, and steps individuals can take to protect themselves, including using antivirus software, firewalls, and caution when receiving suspicious emails or entering information on websites.
Company names mentioned herein are the property of, and may be trademarks of, their respective owners and are for educational purposes only.
*
Compiled and designed by Mark Fullbright, Certified Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist™ (CITRMS) as a free service for consumers to protect themselves online and reduce their exposure to identity theft. Stay Safe, Stay Secure
Most users do not see front-line activity and 'normal business usage' to be a contributing factor to network security; but it's not all about the back-end. Business behavior is a direct impact to business information system risks.
Phishing is a type of social engineering attack where attackers masquerade as trusted entities to trick victims into opening malicious links or revealing sensitive information. This can lead to malware installation, ransomware attacks, or identity theft of individuals. For organizations, phishing is often used to gain access to corporate or government networks, bypassing security to distribute malware or steal privileged data. While phishing targets individuals, it can severely damage organizations through financial losses, declining market share and reputation from security incidents. Two-factor authentication is the most effective way for enterprises to mitigate phishing and spear phishing attacks by adding an extra verification layer when logging into sensitive systems and applications.
This document summarizes a research paper that proposes a machine learning approach for detecting phishing websites. It discusses using heuristic features from CANTINA to train machine learning models. A new domain top-page similarity feature is introduced to improve accuracy. Various modules are described, including site training, site capturing, a phishing dictionary, and image correlation to measure similarity. Experimental results show the approach achieves up to 92.5% f-measure and a 7.5% error rate for phishing detection.
Phishing involves masquerading as a trustworthy entity to steal user credentials and sensitive information. It works by tricking users into entering private details on fake websites or in emails made to look like they came from legitimate sources. Phishing can have serious financial and privacy impacts for victims. Key prevention methods include using antivirus software, firewalls, and caution about unsolicited emails requesting sensitive data.
Article1DISCUSSION_1Information security within an organimallisonshavon
Article1:
DISCUSSION_1
Information security within an organization could be easily compromised once the access to information is given from insiders or stolen from the outsider by any means possible. Based on my experience as supervisors, managing a supermarket, I was often met with similar situations as described by the boss. Calls from individuals with presumable made-up name claiming to be as vendors who would like to supply their products to our supermarket, often turn into conversations that are related to sensitive information relating other vendors, their product, and price related questions.
Spam messages that have become identifiable normal email communicate from vendors could also pose the great security risk for the organization. According to Kaspersky, Spam emails are sent out to the recipient for spreading malicious code onto recipients’ computers and running phishing scams to obtain sensitive data like password and financial information (Kaspersky, 2018). From my previous experience, these emails are usually the cause of computer breakdown and loss of information in a couple of branches which had supervisors who had little knowledge regarding computer and Spam will using email.
As for people who have been seen searching company’s trash dumpsters for recyclable containers, it is obvious that they attempted to salvage any possible sensitive information from the company.
In this case, the management should have met within the company with employees who have direct access to company sensitive information. Inform everyone of possible attempt to breach information security and educate those who might have little knowledge of email spam.
Disposable documents through recyclable dumpsters need to be thoroughly managed to ensure that no possible information could be gathered through the trash. And lastly, ensure that employees understand their role regarding using and sharing sensitive information via telephone calls, email and hard documents to ensure information security in the company.
Below are methods an organization guarantees that its system is ensured:
Install Anti-Virus Software:
Guarantee that legitimate hostile to infection programming is introduced on all computers. This ought to incorporate all servers, computers, and workstations. On the off chance that workers utilize PCs at home for business utilize or to remotely get to the system, these computers ought to likewise have against virus programming introduced.
Ensure that the anti-virus software is up and coming:
Regular new PC viruses are being discharged and it is fundamental that organizations are shielded from these infections by keeping the counter infection programming a la mode. On the off chance that conceivable, organizations should take a gander at strategies whereby PCs that don't have the most avant-garde hostile to infection programming introduced are not permitted to interface with the system.
Employ a firewall to ensure systems:
As PC infections ...
This document discusses phishing attacks and countermeasures. It begins by defining phishing as a type of email fraud where perpetrators send seemingly legitimate emails to collect personal and financial information. It then describes how phishing works, outlining the typical stages: creating fake websites, sending phishing emails with links to these sites, and hoping victims provide sensitive data or get infected with malware when they click the links. Specific phishing scams like spear phishing, whaling, pharming, spoofing, and vishing are also explained. The document concludes by listing warning signs of phishing websites and attacks.
What threatens us in cyberspace?
Phishing: typology of threats
Phishing protection
What is anti-phishing protection?
Website protection
Company and online fraud protection
Conclusion
Learn more about cyber attacks and find out how to secure yourself - https://hacken.live/2BwYyOo
Anatomy of a breach - an e-book by Microsoft in collaboration with the EUUniversity of Essex
1) Hackers gain initial access to networks through techniques like exploiting vulnerabilities, password spraying, or phishing. They then work to gain elevated privileges on internal systems.
2) Once hackers have higher level access, they use that privilege to scan for valuable data and credentials to access other parts of the network. Their goal is widespread access across the network.
3) With control over many systems, hackers implant backdoors to maintain long-term access and control networks from a central command point while evading detection. Companies need comprehensive defenses, data awareness, and protection policies to detect and respond to network intrusions.
This document discusses phishing attacks and ways to counter them. It begins with an abstract that introduces the topic of email phishing and its growing security problems. The main body is divided into sections that: 1) explain how phishing attacks work and their typical stages, from creating spoofed websites to tricking victims into providing sensitive information; 2) describe different types of phishing scams like spear phishing, whaling, and pharming; 3) outline warning signs that an email may be a phishing attempt, such as coming from an unknown sender or having odd writing; and 4) suggest awareness and technical solutions to help prevent falling victim to phishing.
FBI Memo on How to Protect Yourself from RansomwareDavid Sweigert
The document discusses strategies for protecting networks from ransomware attacks. It begins by explaining what ransomware is and how prevalent it has become, encrypting users' files and demanding ransom payments. It then provides recommendations for preventing ransomware infections through educating users, implementing security best practices like patching, backups, and firewalls. The document also gives guidance on responding to an infection by isolating infected devices, contacting law enforcement, and considerations around paying a ransom versus restoring from backups. It concludes by listing some of the most common ransomware variants and providing resources for reporting incidents and getting help from federal agencies.
Phishing attack, with SSL Encryption and HTTPS WorkingSachin Saini
This presentation contains Introduction of Phishing attack, its types and Various techniques, their impact with real live example, after that its Avoidance, Prevention and Solution. Also it contains brief introduction of SSL and HTTPS with their working.
Spear phishing is a targeted form of phishing where adversaries conduct online research about individuals and organizations to craft personalized phishing emails. These emails often contain malicious attachments or links that install malware when opened. Spear phishing has a high success rate because targets are more likely to open emails that appear personalized. Organizations can reduce spear phishing risks through security awareness training for employees and technical defenses like firewalls, software patching, and limiting administrative privileges.
Phishing is a type of cyber attack that steals user data, including credit card and other login credentials information. Phishing happens when a cyber attacker appearing as a trusted entity forces a user to open and click on an email or message, leading to the installation of malware onto the system.
The saying goes, there are only two kinds of companies those that have been hacked and know it, and those that have been hacked, but don't know it. Perhaps that's an exaggeration, but the truth is that your employees may inadvertently invite cyber criminals into your company's computer systems. Here are some steps to help mitigate that risk.
7 Practices To Safeguard Your Business From Security Breaches!Caroline Johnson
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need help with a term paper 8 pages Write a term paper that discusses the risks of pharming and
phishing with respect to identity theft, including spam emails claiming to come from well-known
companies and financial institutions. Including in your paper a discussion of some of the current
techniques being deployed to reduce pharming and phishing, including how effective they are\".
Solution
Pharming:
Pharming (pronounced ‘farming’) is a form of online fraud which is similar to phishing as these
guyz rely upon the same bogus websites and theft of confidential information. However, where
phishing will forward the user to the website through ‘bait’ in the form of a phony email or link,
pharming re-directs victims to the bogus site even if the victim has typed the correct web
address. This is often applied to the websites of well known banks or e-commerce sites, which
considerably dreadful.
Phissing:
Phishing is a form of fraud in which the criminals will try to learn information such as login
credentials or account information by masquerading as a reputable entity or person in email, IM
or other communication channels.Phishing email messages, websites, and phone calls are
designed to steal money. Online frauds can do this by installing malicious software on your
computer. It is a type of an email that falsely claims to be a legitimate enterprise in an attempt to
scam the user into surrendering private information.
Difference between Phissing and Pharming:
Both Phissing and Pharming are entirely two different concepts that are applied to steal the
customer information online.
While pharming is still considered a subset of phishing, it refers to a specific type of phishing
using DNS hijacking or poisoning to forward the user\'s browser to fraudulent sites or servers.
Pharming was keep on increasing from 2005 but has decreased slightly this year due to increased
diligence of domain controls, and is therefore employed less than the phishing exploits
mentioned above.
Special Notes:
From February 2005 to August 2005, worldwide there was a large number of pharming attacks,
due to common misconfigurations of DNS servers that made them accept the poison. While we
still see a trickle of pharming attacks today, most DNS servers have improved their poisoning
defenses, thereby lowering the incident of attacks. Don\'tget fooled, though, they are still out
there and we have to be diligent. If you run a Windows-based DNS server, make sure you have
enabled the \"Secure Cache Against Pollution\" option in the configuration GUI (the default for
recent versions of Windows DNS server). Also, never use Windows DNS servers configured to
forward requests through BIND 4 or 8. Windows DNS servers acting as forwarders should
always go through BIND 9, which can cleanse potentially poisoned records.
Risk of Phissing:
We can come to some general conclusions on the business risks of phishing attacks based on this
year\'s rash of privacy breaches. Phishing attacks ended in per.
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Power Grid Model
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Overview
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4. One phish, two phish, red phish, blue phish
Phishing
• Generic attempts via email to acquire sensitive information by tricking users.
Vishing
• Cold calls to an entity attempting to trick the recipient of the phone call into
performing some action.
Spear phishing
• Targeted phishing attempts aimed at specific individuals or groups within an
organization where the attempts are personalized to increase credibility.
Whaling
• Highly targeted attempts using email as the communication medium to gather
sensitive information from high-value individuals within an organization.
6. High Level Overview of Phishing
Initial
Foothold
System
Access
Pivot
Mercilessly
Today we’ll be focusing on how a threat actor may achieve the initial foothold
on a corporation’s systems.
7. The Initial Foothold – One Approach
Let’s bring the phishing process to life by going through a process from the start
with a fake company called False, Inc. How does this process begin?
Research False, Inc. to understand organizational structure, business drivers,
vendors, employee’s social media content, and other information repositories.
• Initial reconnaissance is the most important step
• Reveals phishing approaches that would likely succeed
• Technical and non-technical in nature
– LinkedIn, PGP keys, corporate websites, search engines, whois points of
contact, identifying remote access services, FaceBook, Instagram,
Twitter, GitHub, professional resumes, document metadata, SEC filings,
and other publicly available information.
8. The Initial Foothold – One Approach
Now we know a lot about the company and likely have some good phishing
approaches that are likely succeed, let’s get a list of emails.
Obtain email addresses for the company by harvesting publicly available emails,
and “mangling” known employee names .
• Some clients prefer us to gather our own email addresses for a more real
world attack scenario.
• Some clients prefer to communicate a list of employee emails for testing to
test the effectiveness of corporate security awareness campaigns.
• Once the syntax of one corporate email is known, employee names can be
mangled to the syntax of corporate email to derive a list of employees to
phish.
9. The Initial Foothold – One Approach
Now that we have knowledge of the company, internal personnel, and a list of
emails, let’s figure out where our email should come from.
Purchase a domain name similar to false.com or a company that False, Inc. does
business with and select a person for the emails to be sent from.
• Usage of tools can help identify mangled domain names if our approach
involves creating an email that appears as if it is from someone internal to
the company being phished.
• When we identified known vendors during the reconnaissance portion, we
could also register mangled vendor domains such as microsofton1ine.com,
trustvvave.com, or even lbnnc.com.
• Are we sending the message from a Director of IT, from the account rep at a
vendor, perhaps from a headhunter from a fake recruiting firm to HR, or from
a business development analyst to their supervisor?
10. HowTo: Mangling a Domain – Part 1
Mangling a domain is a common technique for phishermen to use when they want
their message to appear as if it’s from someone at a given company. Here’s an
example of what mangling a domain looks like—
11. HowTo: Mangling a Domain – Part 2
Mangling a domain can be performed with multiple tools. In the first example,
URLCrazy was used against false.com and came up with 74 mangled domains.The
next example is from DNSTwist and what it was able to come up with 138 variants.
12. HowTo: Mangling a Domain – Part 3
Mangling a domain consists of taking a list of known ways to mistype a domain
while still having it resemble the original domain. Here are the techniques used for
false.com by both URLCrazy and DNSTwist
These of course aren’t all the possibilities, but this is a great starting place.
13. The Initial Foothold – One Approach
To recap, we now have knowledge of the company, internal personnel, a list of
emails, and where our emails are going to come from. Now let’s think of what we’d
like to try and get our phishing targets to do.
A common approach is to clone a familiar website that resembles a false.com
login portal users would authenticate to or develop a document with malware
that someone inside the company would be likely to open.
• A critical failure in an email system occurred overnight and had to be
replaced.Take action now to restore your access.
• Business development leads from an internal resource with a malware
macro.
• Sending a social media link from a known associate’s spoofed email.
• Posting a link onTwitter about the company if they have aTwitter presence.
14. The Initial Foothold – One Approach
If we’re running short on creativity there are some great tools out there that come
with templates for phishing that might get the creativity flowing—
15. Why Site Cloning?
Site cloning is a popular tactic used by phishermen where a login portal is cloned,
hosted on a threat actor’s server, and modified slightly so that whatever a user
types in for the username and password is sent back to the attacker. Alternatively,
the threat actor could include an exploit on the cloned site that they believe would
be effective.
Email portals, remote access portals, social media login portals, and anything else
a user may login to are good choices.
16. Why Documents with Malware?
Malware within electronic office documents is another popular tactic used by
phishermen where a purportedly legitimate document contains malicious code
that will either trigger when the user opens the document or when the user opens
the document and enables macros.
Macros and recent exploits for Microsoft, Java, Adobe, and other common third
party products are used to conduct successful phishing campaigns.
18. Phishing Example 1
Here’s a phishing campaign where someone in need of a job sent their resume to
an IT Recruiter that worked at a company.
19. Phishing Example 2
Here’s a phishing campaign
that was sent out by a
“Helpdesk Supervisor”
letting employees know
they need to take action to
restore access to their email.
20. Phishing Example 3
Here’s a phishing campaign
that was sent out by a
“Helpdesk Supervisor”
trying to educate employees
with security awareness
training for phishing
attempts.
21. How IT Can Help
The role of education, technology, and
policies in limiting damage of phishing
attempts if successful or preventing phishing
attempts from the start.
22. Multi-factorAuthentication
All remotely accessible services that are facing the Internet should be secured
with multi-factor authentication.
• In the event of a successful phish where credentials are disclosed to an
attacker, multi-factor authentication, when appropriately configured, can
prevent the attacker from successfully using the credentials.
• Third party services that are not on the company’s premises should also be
secured.
– Office365, a technology more and more organizations are moving to, is
an example of a third party service that does provide multi-factor
authentication that should be enabled.
23. Employee Awareness
All employees should be regularly educated to raise their awareness of phishing
attacks.
• Phishing quizzes
• Monthly phishing email reminders with actual phishing attempts
• Visual reminders around the office, such as educational posters
– An especially good idea for preventing tail-gating
24. AssessTraining Effectiveness
The level of awareness of employees can be assessed by conducting regular
phishing campaigns either internally or by having a third party do it.
• Metrics from a simulated phishing campaign can highlight areas where
training can be improved or identify employees who need additional help.
• Social assessments should include multiple types of phishing (vishing, spear
phishing, and whaling).
25. Keep Systems Patched
In the event of a successful phishing campaign, having systems patched is
critical to preventing further damage.
• Many phishing payloads deliver recent exploits that allow for remote code
execution in the event that a user takes the action that the attacker is
attempting to elicit.
– Remote code execution = attacker is in your computer and has a degree
of control over the computer depending on the permissions of the user
who was phished.
• MicrosoftAND 3rd party products should be patched
– Weaponization of exploits after a patch is released usually occurs before
the time allotted for patching within an organization’s patch policy
26. Spam Detection
While not a cure-all, an email gateway with spam detection capabilities will
have an impact on the amount of spam and phishing attempts that reaches
each end user.
• Preventing excess spam from being delivered to end users will prevent
message fatigue and make it more likely that users will spot phishing
attempts with a higher level of sophistication.
27. Limit Access – Least Privilege
Users need access to do their jobs, but many companies suffer from access
creep or allotting more permissions than needed for an employee to do their job
effectively.
• Enforcing least privilege at the operating system level may limit an attacker
to a low privileged account (non-administrative).
• Enforcing least privilege at the mapped drives and file shares will also limit
the impact of ransomware and what it is able to encrypt.
28. Visual Indicators for Employees
Additional visual cues to assist employees in identifying phishing attempts.
• Utilize the mail gateway to append [EXTERNAL] to emails that originate
from outside of the company.
• Have corporate photos displayed within the mail client so that when a
picture is not present but the email appears to be from someone internal,
users will report the phishing attempt.
• Use plug-ins within the mail client that displays a button to a user that can be
clicked if a suspected phishing attempt is identified. When clicked, the
button will forward it to the helpdesk.
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