Methods for detecting, blocking and attributing phishing pages

Nazarov Alexey

Today, phishing is a problem for almost all users, businesses, and service providers around the world. Phishing is used to obtain confidential information. These can be addresses and passwords, bank details and other data that cyber fraudsters can use for illegal enrichment, while the influence can be carried out through e-mail, social networks or telephone communications. Phishing is also called a form of social engineering, which is based on users' ignorance of the fundamental principles of network security. In addition, cybercriminals for the most part operate not only with technology, but also with human carelessness and gullibility. Back in 2011, Cisco identified seven major human weaknesses that are exploited by criminals in a report: sexuality, greed, vanity, gullibility, laziness, compassion, and haste in decision making. Today, phishing is a global billion-dollar industry, the damage from which is enormous and only increases every year. This article discussed the concept of phishing and how to counter this type of fraud. In addition, the statistics of damage in recent years with the use of this type of crime in the information field is presented.

Keywords:phishing, cybercrime, information security, phishing pages, email, websites, mobile phishing.