What is Keylogger, Cookietheft and Phising?

KEYLOGGER

Keylogger is a simple software that records the key sequence and strokes of your keyboard into a log file on your machine. These log files might even contain your personal email IDs and passwords. Also known as keyboard capturing, it can be either software or hardware. While software-based keyloggers target the programs installed on a computer, hardware devices target keyboards, electromagnetic emissions, smartphone sensors, etc.

Keylogger is one of the main reasons why online banking sites give you an option to use their virtual keyboards. So, whenever you’re operating a computer in public setting, try to take extra caution.

COOKIE THEFT

The cookies of a browser keep our personal data such as browsing history, username, and passwords for different sites that we access. Once the hacker gets the access to your cookie, he can even authenticate himself as you on a browser. A popular method to carry out this attack is to encourage a user’s IP packets to pass through attacker’s machine.

Also known as SideJacking or Session Hijacking, this attack is easy to carry out if the user is not using SSL (https) for the complete session. On the websites where you enter your password and banking details, it’s of utmost importance for them to make their connections encrypted.

PHISHING

Phishing is a hacking technique using which a hacker replicates the most-accessed sites and traps the victim by sending that spoofed link. Combined with social engineering, it becomes one of the most commonly used and deadliest attack vectors.

Once the victim tries to login or enters some data, the hacker gets that private information of the target victim using the trojan running on the fake site. Phishing via iCloud and Gmail account was the attack route taken by hackers who targeted the “Fappening” leak, which involved numerous Hollywood female celebrities.

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