A Survey of Phishing Attack Techniques

Now in a day’s phishing is a special type of network attack where the attacker creates a replica of an existing web page to fool users in to submitting personal, financial, transaction or password data to what they think is their service provider’s website. Phishing has two techniques, deceptive phishing and malware – based phishing. Here we focus on deceptive phishing using social engineering schemes. To protect users against phishing, various anti-phishing techniques have been proposed. In this paper we have reviewed various phishing and anti-phishing methods for detecting and preventing phishing attack. 1