This phishing kit is wreaking havoc on thousands of victims

PHISHING

* What is phishing:- Phishing is a basically a plan of an attack by a hacker to hack your accounts. It's kind of similar thing as fishing like you drop a piece of food in water for catch a fish similarly in phishing attack hackers send you a link via email or any other messaging platforms and that message is look like official message and that message is create by a hacker and message contains some words which will force you to click on that particular link and you will not be able to understand that particular link is original or fake and you just click on that particular link after that you will redirect to an website it may be Facebook website, Gmail account login page or any bank account's page or any other websites and which is a duplicate website but look like original one and then you just enter your sensitive details then that hacker can steal your details and hacked your accounts. 

    *Example:- Like you are receive a message that message contains a link & states that "Your Bank account's Debit card is expire click the below/above link to renew your Debit card" and when you click that particular link that link redirect you to a website which look like your bank's website but actually that website creates by that hacker and when you enter your sensitive bank details then those details will receive by that hacker and your bank account will hacked. 

* Prevent from Phishing:- Here are few steps to prevent from  phishing attack 

1. Whenever you receive any email then to check that if that particular mail is for phishing or not just check the sender mail id spelling if the spelling of sender mail id is correct then that's a genuine mail if their is any spelling mistake then that's a phishing mail.

 Like you receive a mail from Facebook then check the sender mail id spelling if it's "facebook" then it's a genuine mail but if it's "facebok" then it's a phishing mail "facebook" & "facebok" sound of both are same but spellings are different one is original and one is fake. You can easily understand from the image given below.

2. Don't click any unknown links  that you don't know. And check that is that link starts from https or http if http then don't click on that link.

3. Check that website's URL if there is any spelling mistakes then simply understand that website is 100% fake website. Because original website and fake website URL can't be same.

PHISHING KIT & ITS RELATED HAVOC ON THOUSANDS OF VICTIMS

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a phishing kit that's being used by some scammers to scam people around the world. 

Researchers at vpnMentor  chanced upon two different campaigns that used slightly altered versions of the phishing kit, to target people mostly living in Israel and France.

According to researchers , at first time a scammer successfully collected 380 Israeli credit cards.

In the first scam the attackers masqueraded as the UPS courier services and scammed over 4400 people. while a majority were Israeli's peoples  there were individuals from the US, Brazil, Saudi Arabia & from all over the Europe.

In second scam targeted  customers of the Crédit Agricole Bank in France , and is effected around 1700 people.

The researchers believe the phishing kit was probably acquired by newbie internet scammers. 

This is slowly slowly take a form of cybercrime. And if researchers doesn't take any action on it very strictly then it may form of war.

In fact vpnMentor  was able to discover the phishing kit only because of  those scammers were experienced enough to leave their database of the scammed information completely unsecured and decrypted.