What is Phishing What is Phishing Attack

So first let us understand what phishing actually is on a day to day basis you use Internet use a web application you can be using a web application through your apps on your smartphone or some applications on your desktop or you might be using a web browser.

Now consider the case where you re using a web browser and you have to shop something online now we search for the product and you come across different web sites and you like the product on two different web sites so one of these websites is a very famous very popular very trustworthy e-commerce web site and there is another web site which is selling your product for the same price and or maybe for a more discounted price but it is not popular you ve never heard of that eCommerce website before now you choose to pay for your product online and for that you might have to enter your credit card or your debit card details now the question is which website would you trust more with your personal details with your sensitive details that is your credit card details obviously you would be less hesitant while you re entering the credit card details onto the e-commerce website that is trustworthy and you would be worried while entering these details onto the website that you are putting the name for the first time this is because you don t trust the new website the other website the popular website you heard of the name before you ve used it before and you have a trust factor with that website.