Desktop Phishing-Editing/changing the host file

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Intro:

Whenever we type a URL in the address bar of browser, what it will do is, it will first check the system hosts file located in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\, if the domain name is there or not. If the respective domain name is found then it compares the IP address in the corresponding field and direct the page to the corresponding IP address.

Tab Napping(Phishing Attack)

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Theory Behind Tabnapping(please read this to understand)

How many times you have opened several tabs and forget to go to the other tabs. Because of this ignorance of victim, hacker can actually redierect the idle tab to their phishing page. And in many cases victim doesn't bother to see the URL of the page. In simple words its just a trick to confuse the user in multiple tabs.

Phishing(Basic Level)

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What is Phishing?

Phishing is a technique to obtain password,username or any sensetive information like Credit card details using a fake page which pretends to be a real one.