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Phishing is an act of acquiring personal or financial information fraudulently by pretending to be a legitimate entity.

How Phishing works?

Phishers often use different methods like fake email and spoofed website to gather information. Currently, these are some of the common trends on phishing:

Spear Phishing

Unlike the ordinary phishing, spear phishing is a targeted attack. Attacker usually have some of the personal information of the target to have a successful attack.

Whaling

Whaling is a type of phishing that targets the executives. The goal is to deceive someone to disclosed corporate information through social engineering, email and content spoofing.

How do I protect myself?

Be suspicious when receiving emails directing you to provide certain information (personal, corporate and financial)
Always check the websites’ URL to see if you are on the genuine website or not, make sure that you always see the “https://” on the first part of the address bar.

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