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Email or malicious websites are used to collect user login credentials and are provided to the attackers in the phishing attack which is also considered to be the type of social engineering attack. Mid January 2017, many Gmail users all over the world experienced Gmail Phishing attack. The attackers used extraordinarily intelligent mechanism containing a duplicate but looking very real Gmail sign in page.
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Prasad, R., Rohokale, V. (2020). Phishing. In: Cyber Security: The Lifeline of Information and Communication Technology. Springer Series in Wireless Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31703-4_3
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