How safe are our links ?? | Link Manipulation Phishing : A type of phishing attack

Link Manipulation

In the present world of the Internet when everything is going online then there might be a risk of manipulation. Manipulation is a phishing attack done mainly to mislead the user to a fake website that looks like a similar website for the purpose to steal personal information through spamming or other deceptive means.

Link Manipulation is otherwise known as link manipulation phishing which is a technique in which a phisher sends a link to a website and that link found to be a deceptive link and user clicked that phisher's website link instead of a genuine link.

There are a number of different phishing techniques used to obtain personal information from users. Let’s look at some of these phishing techniques.

• Email / Spam: Phishers may send the spam messages to your email like asking to give credentials to update your bank account or any other thing to verify your accounts. This is quite common phishing email examples for which you need to be aware regarding such spam activity.
• Web-Based Delivery: It is the most popular phishing techniques where phisher traces details during an online transaction between a user and website. In this way, they collect the information without the user knowing about it. 
• Instant Messaging: Instant messaging is another method through which phishers send links to the user as a message to redirect to the links of a fake website which looks similar to the legitimate website. 
• Link Manipulation: Link manipulation is the technique in which the phisher sends a link to a website having the intention to click on the deceptive link that redirects phisher’s website as Deceptive link manipulation.
• Key Loggers: Keyloggers refer to the malware used to identify inputs from the keyboard as passwords and other types of information.
• Malware Phishing: Phishing scams involving malware require it to be run on the user’s computer. The malware is usually attached to the email sent to the user by the phishers. 
• Phishing through Search Engines:

How to avoid link Manipulation?

There are certain  Precautions to avoid link manipulation which as follows:

• Keep software up to date
• use complex passwords
• Server-side validation/form validation should be done
• Update antivirus regularly
• Use Website security tools

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