Imagine that you are in a group of friends and the topic of hacking is being discussed, you will eventually see how attractive these topics are among them, and they may prefer to spend many hours talking about it, you know that hackers are people who are very talented in the field of computers and spend many hours throughout the day and night working with their system and are constantly learning new points about hacking methods, also due to the high income of hacking and related issues, the number of people who are attracted to this topic is increasing day by day, which adds to the worries of users who deal with computers and the Internet at the same time, and these people are trying to do their best to be able to increase the security of their system and information by taking various steps. Hackers may gain access to the information of different people by guessing passwords, using malicious codes, using malware, etc., one of the most common methods among hackers, is phishing which we will discuss in more detail below.

What is phishing?

In fact, phishing is a dangerous attack carried out by hackers, in which the hacker sends an email, phone or message from a reputable organization or a trusted person, with the aim of endangering user information, through this way, hackers can gain access to the information of different people and use it, for example, they may steal bank card number, passwords, etc., in order to achieve their desires.

How does phishing happen?

As we have mentioned earlier, hackers are becoming more and more specialized in their field of work, and by increasing their awareness and knowledge in this field, they are using smarter methods to attack systems, which may shock users, and finally gain access to important information in their system, phishing attacks occur when different users respond to an email from a hacker and fall into the trap of hackers, so they endanger all their information and system, these emails often have attractive subjects, which causes users to respond to them quickly and may contain an urgent request, for example you may be asked to update your password as soon as possible, a request for entering codes that are sent to you by one of the social networks, clicking on an infected link, etc., that all these requests are in order for hackers to infiltrate your account and information.These messages are designed in such a way that the users think they were sent from a reputable source, and if they are not aware of this danger immediately, they may provide a lot of information to profiteers or hackers, or they may give hackers the opportunity of installing one of their target malware on the user's system. 

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