You receive an e-mail that seems to come from your bank. Clicking on a link in the message takes you to a website that seems to be your bank's website. However, the website is fake. This is called a ________ attack. (Pick the most precise answer.)

The term "phishing" comes from the combination of the English term "fishing", which means to fish, with the term "phreak", often used to name the first telephony hackers.

It is a type of scam that uses technological mechanisms, usually based on messages, to persuade and deceive people, with a specific objective, which varies from attack to attack.

For example, sending you an email message with a link like a popular social media platform which is meant to trick you into submitting your login details thereby hacking into your account from the hacker's remote location.

Lanuel Lanuel · Answer 2 · 2020-02-24T01:49:29+01:00

Answer:

Phishing attack

Explanation:

Phishing is an attempt to obtain sensitive information such as usernames, passwords and credit card details or bank account details by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in an

electronic communication usually over the internet. In this case, the email was sent by a criminally minded person whose intent would be to steal sensitive informations from the user by cloning the bank's web link and page.