Introduction
Explore the fundamentals of phishing as an attack aimed at users rather than software. Understand how attackers use phishing emails to steal credentials, bypassing technical defenses. This lesson prepares you to recognize phishing threats and sets the foundation for learning different phishing types and defense strategies.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
What is phishing?
Phishing is the first attack we’ve covered that attacks the user instead of the software. In a phishing attack, the attacker sends an email to the victim and tricks the victim into doing something the ...