Vishing : Cybercrime
The government released a circular warning its employees of a sophisticated cybercrime— vishing.
- Vishing is short form of voice+phishing, is carried out through a call on a mobile phone or landline.
- It’s a technique wherein a threat actor calls the victim over the phone and tries to trick him/her into clicking on malicious files or emails, which can then take one to a legitimate-looking website asking to share personal information.
- In other cases, the attacker can solicit sensitive information from the victim.
- It can be so tricky that the caller might appear as the manager or colleague of the victim, enticing her to share sensitive information, at times using urgency as the tactic.
