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Its time to do some Desktop Hacking or instead Desktop Phishing...
Do you know what's that??? Before starting practically lets see what exactly is Desktop Phishing. In short and simplest way Phishing is a method to acquire some sensitive and secure credentials or information from some one like passwords,usernames,credit card details,etc by appearing to them as a genuine or trustworthy person.By genuine means that you are forcing your buddies to trust you, and after gaining their trust you try to victimize them.That's what is so called Phishing.
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| This is the icon of fake facebook login page on the desktop |
With phishing you can victimize any1 with your social tricks n get their credentials easily...that means you can hack their emails for eg. gmail, yahoo, hotmail,etc or any of the social networking sites as well like facebook, twitter,etc.
The process of Phishing involves making of a fake page of the site for eg. facebook.com, then you convince your victim to enter their credentials...As soon as they enter the login details and hit enter to proceed...you get their credentials on ur email-id...This is how it works...
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| This is the fake login page as clearly depicted by the URL |
Desktop Phishing is an advanced type of Phishing attack.In normal phishing attack one can easily get to know about the fake login page on seeing the URL bar.But in desktop phishing this drawback is totally eliminated...What happens is that the hacker makes changes in the host file(C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\), and the send compressed file of this to the victim as soon as the victim opens particular site for facebook.com, he/she gets directed to the fake page and the domain name(facebook.com) remains same as typed by the victim...n the victim doesn't come to know that its a fake one...So doing changes in the host file n following the same procedure of the phishing is so called Desktop Phishing...
Stay tuned to The Hackorial for the tutorial on the practical application of Desktop Phishing i.e. Blocking websites
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