Kali Linux Social Engineering by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing

The detailed login credentials will then be redirected, as shown in the following screenshot:

Final output of Web Jacking Attack

Spear-phishing attack vector

As a penetration tester, the first phase that we generally carry out is the information gathering or the reconnaissance phase, where we gather an enormous amount of information, such as the IP address, IP address range, phone numbers, office address, and official e-mail address of an important person in the organization.

Once in the attack phase, while trying to exploit every bit of information that we have gathered in the initial information gathering phase, e-mail address security is also checked to see whether our employees are aware of such attacks or whether we need to do something about it.

Phishing attacks have been used by many cyber juggernauts to get inside the most secured networks by simply using e-mails. Spear-phishing attacks have been used by hackers to attack a specific organization or person.

A spear-phishing attack is considered one of the most advanced targeting attacks, and they are also called advance persistent threat (APT) attacks. Today, many cyber criminals use APT through the use of the advance malware. The objective of performing spear-phishing is to gain long term access to different resources of the target for ex-government, military network, or satellite usage. Let's see how spear-phishing attacks can be performed:

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