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2) Phishing Attacks

If you thought that credential stuffing was bad, phishing is even worse because you are unknowingly giving bad actors your username and passwords.

It’s estimated that nearly 70% of all cybercrimes begin with phishing attacks. For hackers, they love this technique. It works all too well to steal your information for their own use or to sell it to others on the dark web.

How do phishing attacks work? We’re glad you asked… It’s pretty straightforward. Hackers use a ‘social engineering’ technique to trick users into supplying their credentials to what they believe is a genuine request from a legitimate website, vendor, or employer.

Phishing attacks almost always come through emails that contain a fraudulent link or a malicious attachment. When the user clicks on either, the hacker presents a fake account login page where the user enters in their credentials. Hackers may also use other forms of interception which as a man-in-the-middle attack to steal user credentials.