Types Of Cyber Threats Training Ppt

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This slide gives information about spam as a cyber threat. Spam is unsolicited or unwanted junk email sent in bulk to a wholesale recipient list. Typically, it is sent for commercial purposes.

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This slide gives an overview of phishing attacks. Phishing is a type of cybercrime where a target or targets are contacted through email, phone call, or text message. The fraudster poses as representative of a legitimate organization to trick people into disclosing sensitive information like OTPs, passwords, banking, credit card, and personally identifiable information.

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This slide tells us about the working of spam and phishing attacks. Although sending spam emails is considered unethical, many companies still send these as it is a low cost method of sending a large number of mails, regularly. Botnets can also be used to send spam in large quantities.

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This slide highlights the difference between spam and phishing attacks.

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This slide lists types of phishing attacks. These are spear phishing, whaling, vishing, smishing, email phishing, and search engine phishing.

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This slide talks about spear phishing. Spear phishing seeks to gain illegal access to confidential data by targeting specific organizations or individuals.

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This slide gives information about whaling. A whaling phishing attack targets CEOs or CFOs to steal sensitive information from a company. Many whaling phishing attempts aim to trick the victim into approving high-value wire transfers to the attacker.

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This slide talks about vishing. Voice phishing or vishing uses phone calls to carry out phishing attacks. Vishing attacks are usually conducted using automated text-to-speech systems that direct a victim to call a number that the attacker controls, while some also use live callers.

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This slide talks about smishing. Smishing uses text messaging or short message service (SMS) to carry out the attack. These messages usually contain clickable links or a return phone number.

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This slide cautions against email phishing. Email phishing is the most prevalent form of phishing, where hackers send emails to any email address they can obtain.

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This slide talks about search engine phishing. In search engine phishing or SEO poisoning, hackers work to become the top hit on a search engine using Search Engine Optimization.

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This slide gives us information about employee actions that lead to phishing attacks in organizations. Over 20% of employees tend to click on fake attachments.

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This slide gives some tips on how to prevent phishing attacks. Some of these include: Conducting regular training for employees, deploying multi-factor authentication, etc.