CAPEC 98 Phishing

Draft Standard High Risk
Severity Very High

Description

Phishing is a social engineering technique where an attacker masquerades as a legitimate entity with which the victim might do business in order to prompt the user to reveal some confidential information (very frequently authentication credentials) that can later be used by an attacker. Phishing is essentially a form of information gathering or \'fishing\' for information.

Attack Execution Flow

4

Mitigations

1

Consequences

Indicators

2

Relationships

Related ATT&CK Techniques

2

Resources Required

1