Vishing
- Recently, the Union government released a circular warning its employees of a sophisticated cybercrime known as vishing.
- Short for voice+phishing, it’s a technique wherein a threat actor calls the victim over the phone and tries to trick him/her into clicking on malicious files or emails, which can then take one to a legitimate-looking website, asking him/her to share personal information.
- In other cases, the attacker can solicit sensitive information from the victim.
- It can be so tricky that the caller might appear as the manager or colleague of the ....
