How Cognitive Computing Can Help To Prevent Phishing Attacks

Phishing is one of the internet’s oldest threats. Its history traces back to the mid-1990s, but it unfortunately continues to escalate in numbers every year. Based on social engineering, phishing is most typically delivered by email, or an SMS message, with a URL inside.

Cybercriminals who use phishing kits have devised numerous methods to access and solicit the attention of bank customers. They might send emails impersonating a bank, redirect users to fake sites, deploy pharming attacks, induce malicious proxy changes or launch fake windows or images on a victim’s desktop, just to name a few -- all to steal access credentials, account information, card data and personally identifiable information (PII).

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