Phishing is a form of cybercrime where attackers use channels like email, text messages, or websites to pretend to be an entity the target trusts. Phishing messages often use tactics to create urgency, for example, suggesting a user's account will be locked or may have been compromised. The goal is to deceive individuals into revealing personal, sensitive, or financial information, such as their passwords or credit card numbers.
Use case/ examples for phishing
User education: Educating users on best practices for identifying phishing attempts and the techniques that fraudsters use to attempt to collect user logins and passwords, and providing warnings about suspicious emails, texts, or websites that are being used in phishing attempts.
Account monitoring and proactive defense: Detecting when compromised credentials from phishing attacks are being used to access accounts and triggering additional verification requirements for the wider, potentially affected user base.
