Phishing: A viral cyber threat
Gashi, Genti (2023)
2023
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The constant evolution of technology is beneficial for all of society in terms of healthcare, automation of tedious tasks, and raising mindfulness toward the global climate. Along with this constant evolution, cyber-crimes such as phishing evolves in parallel. To understand this threat actor more fully, there is an obligation to understand the irrefutable truth that phishing is unavoidable and will never disappear.
The objective of this thesis was to raise awareness of the growing threats phishing causes with its constant employment of new methods such as Artificial Intelligence and scripts. With this in mind, an analysis of a phishing tool was carried out in an isolated Virtual Machine along with an observation of multiple phishing websites. To conclude, the thesis provides a discernment of the dangers of phishing and the awareness needed to avoid them.
The objective of this thesis was to raise awareness of the growing threats phishing causes with its constant employment of new methods such as Artificial Intelligence and scripts. With this in mind, an analysis of a phishing tool was carried out in an isolated Virtual Machine along with an observation of multiple phishing websites. To conclude, the thesis provides a discernment of the dangers of phishing and the awareness needed to avoid them.