Sucuri guide explains phishing aimed at website owners
Original title: What Is Phishing? Recognizing and Preventing Attacks
A lookalike host login can relay a password and authenticator code into a live session; a compromised site may then host phishing pages.
Sucuri published a primer for site owners on phishing that impersonates a trusted host, registrar, bank, or colleague to steal information, redirect a payment, or prompt an unsafe action. A hypothetical hosting-suspension email leads to a near-real login that captures a password and one-time code while the victim is redirected to the real site. The guide separates mass from spear phishing and covers email, SMS, voice, QR codes, and chat, and says a click alone does not compromise an account.
- Spear phishing can name the target’s host, plugins, agency, or a pending client invoice.
- Attackers research public team pages, WHOIS, LinkedIn, press, and contact-form replies.
- Language tools make poor grammar a weaker signal of a fake message.
- HTTPS only means the connection is encrypted; attackers routinely use free certificates.
- A visit to a credential page matters if something is submitted, downloaded, or approved.
- ATT&CK
- T1566.002 Spearphishing LinkT1566.001 Spearphishing AttachmentT1566.003 Spearphishing via ServiceT1566.004 Spearphishing Voice
- Organizations
- Sucuri
From the original article
10 min read at blog.sucuri.net
Phishing is an attack in which someone impersonates a person or organization you trust, like your host, registrar, bank, or colleague, in order to steal information, redirect a payment, or talk you into an action that helps them. The message is the delivery vehicle, and the goal is always the next action you take. If you run a website, you’re on both sides of this problem.
By Sucuri · blog.sucuri.net
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