{"id":702,"date":"2022-03-10T08:46:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T08:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2024-08-13T11:28:57","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T05:58:57","slug":"vishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Read a Brief Guide on Vishing Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_is_Vishing_Attack\"><\/span><b>What is Vishing Attack?<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u201cHello, I am calling from your bank. I would like to confirm a few details of your account\u2026\u201d Seems familiar, right? Did you fall for it? Technology has advanced to a greater extent in making our lives much easier. But nothing can beat cyber crooks when it comes to keeping up with technological innovations. They make sure to maintain their level and adjust their scams accordingly. Keeping up with the race are Vishing-attacks, one of the major criminal tech-scams.<\/span><\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-light-blue ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #414141;color:#414141\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #414141;color:#414141\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#What_is_Vishing_Attack\" >What is Vishing Attack?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#Book_a_Free_Demo_Call_with_Our_People_Security_Expert\" >Book a Free Demo Call with Our People Security Expert<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#Enter_your_details\" >Enter your details<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#Prevailing_Vishing_Techniques\" >Prevailing Vishing Techniques<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#How_to_Prevent_Vishing_Attacks\" >How to Prevent Vishing Attacks?<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-6' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-6'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/vishing-attack\/#The_tool_comes_with_these_amazing_features\" >The tool comes with these amazing features:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Vishing&nbsp;<\/b>term comes from the combination of two words,&nbsp;<i>\u2018voice\u2019&nbsp;<\/i>and&nbsp;<i>\u2018phishing\u2019<\/i>. Vishing attacks are existing since the service of internet phone service providers started. It is a fraud practice of deceiving individuals into revealing personal and confidential information. However, in the process of vishing, attackers use internet telephone services instead of regular means such as websites, emails, or phone calls.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A vishing attack is carried out by manipulating people emotionally or scaring them by showing urgency in giving up their personal information. The numbers are created in a manner to trick the victims by making them believe that they are actual numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Such phishing attacks are deployed by spoofing legitimate phone numbers to deceive people into believing the call is legitimate. In fact, even if you don\u2019t answer the call, vishers make sure to leave a provoking message that you are tempted to call them back.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"720\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/vishing-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10641\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Vishing attacks, especially pretending to be claiming from your bank accounts is very common nowadays. In these types of cases, Vishers pretend to impersonate a legitimate bank in order to get the bank account details of the customers over the call. Although there are various other existing vishing techniques to trick people for personal information.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!DOCTYPE html>\n<html lang=\"en\">\n\n<head>\n    <meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n    <meta http-equiv=\"X-UA-Compatible\" content=\"IE=edge\">\n    <meta name=\"viewport\" content=\"width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0\">\n    <title>Document<\/title>\n<\/head>\n\n<style>\n    .interestedBtn {\n        width: 80% !important;\n        box-sizing: border-box !important;\n        display: inline-block !important;\n        padding: 11px !important;\n        border: 1px !important;\n        border-color: #ddd !important;\n        margin-top: 10px !important;\n        background-color: #183e8b !important;\n        background-image: none !important;\n        text-shadow: none !important;\n        color: #fff !important;\n        font-size: 14px !important;\n        line-height: 20px !important;\n        border-radius: 5px !important;\n        margin: 0 !important;\n        cursor: pointer !important;\n        box-shadow: 0px 4.66px 22.99px 0px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.10);;\n    }\n\n\n        .formSec .formSecTwo{\n            padding-top: 15px !important;\n            margin-bottom: 30px !important;\n        }\n\n\n    .tnp-email {\n        width: 80% !important;\n        box-sizing: border-box;\n        padding: 8px 10px;\n        display: inline-block;\n        border: 1px solid #ced4da;\n        background: #fff;\n        color: #000 !important;\n        font-size: 13px;\n        line-height: 20px;\n        border-radius: 2px;\n        padding-right: 30px;\n        margin-bottom: 0px;\n    }\n\n    .formSec {\n        border: 1px solid #ced4da;\n        float: left !important;\n        width: 55% !important;\n    }\n\n    .mainBox {\n       \/* border: 1px solid #183e8b;*\/\n         background: white;\n        max-width: 600px !important;\n        margin: 0 auto !important;\n        padding: 20px !important;\n        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif !important;\n    }\n\n    .boxDiv {\n        display: flex !important;\n    }\n\n    .boxConsult {\n        float: left !important;\n        width: 45% !important;\n        padding: 10px !important;\n    }\n\n    .formSecTwo {\n        text-align:center !important;\n        width: 100% !important;\n    }\n\n    .formHeading {\n        font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;\n        margin-top: 0px;\n        font-weight: 700;\n        line-height: 25px;\n        font-size: 18px !important;\n        \n       margin-bottom: 60px !important;\n       color: #000!important;\n          margin-top: 5px !important;\n    }\n\n    .fieldHeading {\n        margin: 0 !important;\n        font-size: 13px !important;\n        text-align: left !important;\n        margin: 0px 39px 2px 93px !important;\n        font-weight: 500 !important;\n    }\n\n    .image {\n        max-width:90% !important;\n        height: auto !important;\n    }\n\n     .email-icon {\n            position: absolute;\n            right: 50px;\n             top: 20px;\n            transform: translateY(-50%);\n            pointer-events: none; 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This technique helps attackers in making several calls anytime, anywhere through an internet-based phone system.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Wardialing:\u00a0<\/b>In this vishing technique, a list of automatically scanned telephone numbers is used for dialing every individual\u2019s number in the local area code. This vishing attack is deployed to look out for the unprotected modems. Listeners are tricked into entering their bank account details or debit\/credit card details.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Social Engineering:\u00a0<\/b>The technique is used for bypassing complicated security hardware and software. Vishers use this technique to sound relatively professional and convincing over the call intending to gain sensitive information from their targets.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Dumpster Diving:<\/b> This hack involves digging through the bank\u2019s dumped files to obtain customer information, vendor lists, confidential business details, etc. The main objective of dumpster diving is to dig out a list of clients\u2019 phone numbers.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Aforesaid vishing techniques are the most common practices of fraud phone calls. Industries and organizations must follow some preventive measures to avoid this kind of cyber attack. Proceeding further for guidelines on how you can prevent becoming a target of a vishing attack.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_to_Prevent_Vishing_Attacks\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>How to Prevent Vishing Attacks?<\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If anyone asks you to provide your confidential information, don\u2019t entertain them, even if they claim to be calling from your bank. Banks never ask for your personal, sensitive, or confidential information over the call.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If someone asks for the one time password (OTP) over the phone, do not respond to their requests. OTPs are meant for users, and, any legitimate authority never asks for OTP from their users over the call.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This looks like a dicey fact. Try to state something to relevant this statement. As in how users can know that this is spam or is not spam email.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The best way to prevent a vishing attack is by training your employees using employee awareness and simulation like Threatcop.<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kratikal.com\/\">\u00a0<span style=\"color: #183994;\"><strong>Kratikal<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, one of India\u2019s leading cybersecurity companies, provides this best product.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/threatcop.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #183994;\"><b>Threatcop<\/b><\/span><\/a> is a cyber-security awareness tool that offers simulation attacks on a selected group of individuals. The tool provides simulations against employee-focused attack vectors like Phishing, Vishing, SMiShing, Ransomware, Cyber scams, and the Risk of Removable Media. For Vishing, threatcop runs a to check their vulnerability level over a voice call.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">It is a real-time simulation attack tool that tracks individual employees\u2019 real-time threat posture. With Threatcop, you get a customized dashboard that shows the complete report of an individual\u2019s vulnerability assessment score.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h6 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_tool_comes_with_these_amazing_features\"><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b><i>The tool comes with these amazing features:<\/i><\/b><\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h6>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>Tool Operation Training:<\/b> A Threatcop is a security attack simulator and awareness<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">tool that simulates a Phishing attack.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Create\/customize\/import Email templates:\u00a0Customize or import email templates just the way you like.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dummy Replication of Latest Attacks: Become proactive and alert with the latest dummy replication of cyber attacks.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Scheduled Campaigns:\u00a0Schedule simulation attacks campaigns according to your suitable date and time.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Email Reply Tracking: One can have full tracking of the email delivery and the rate of email deliverability.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hack Records of Employees: Get the full jack history of your employees for the in-depth analysis of employee vulnerability scores.<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Automated Security Awareness Program: The Simulation attack is generally followed by employee awareness training via LMS.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Vishing Attack? \u201cHello, I am calling from your bank. 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