You might ask yourself how come there are so many cases of phishing if we are increasingly more aware of how cybercriminals operate. Marta Barrio Marcos and Carolina Gómez Uriarte explain this in the lecture entitled “Phishing: why does it still work?” in Module 2 “Cybersecurity Awareness” of C1b3rWall Academy 2021. The aim of this one is to raise awareness of phishing and its consequences.

Marta is a computer engineer with more than nine years of experience in the cybersecurity sector. She is specialized in ethical hacking and pentesting, with experience in vulnerability analysis, pentesting, network and infrastructure security review. She is currently working on the security department of Beam Suntory as an Application Security Architect. She is also behind the “Securiters” project for cybersecurity outreach and awareness. Carolina is a pentester at VASS with more than three years of experience in the cybersecurity sector. She is currently the director of the Sh3llCON cybersecurity conference and a writer at http://www.sh3llcon.org/.

A phishing attack is a type of fraud in which the attacker takes advantage of the victim’s trust in a third party to open or enter their data and subsequently use it illegally. This is done through the use of logos, texts and images that the user is familiar with in order to deceive them.

The main targets of this type of attack are data theft, malware distribution, spam list subscriptions, etc.

You can read the full article on News-365. In addition, you can continue learning about phishing, how to detect it and how to react if you become a victim by enrolling in C1b3rWall Academy 2021 for free.

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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