CAPEC 164 Mobile Phishing

Stable Detailed High Risk
Severity High

Description

An adversary targets mobile phone users with a phishing attack for the purpose of soliciting account passwords or sensitive information from the user. Mobile Phishing is a variation of the Phishing social engineering technique where the attack is initiated via a text or SMS message, rather than email. The user is enticed to provide information or visit a compromised web site via this message. Apart from the manner in which the attack is initiated, the attack proceeds as a standard Phishing attack.

Attack Execution Flow

4

Mitigations

1

Consequences

Indicators

2

Relationships

Resources Required

1