What Is Phishing
Here in this post we will discus a little about what is phishing. Please note what we are covering here is just basics and not a phishing tutorial. In phishing attack, an attacker creates a fake login page of a legitimate website and lures victim to login using it. The site under attack is known as phished site and the fake login page used for capturing or stealing information is known as phished page. To perform phishing attack an attacker performs following steps,
First of all he gets a free web host and then selects a domain which somehow resembles the site he wants to phish. For example to hack Gmail password he/she may select domain like Gmial. Look carefully both words appear nearly similar when just overlooked and that is where an attacker makes a catch.