Summary

Phishing, scamming, and spamming are methods that are widely used to steal data and money from users. This chapter analyzed the techniques used and how exactly the money and data are stolen from users. A lot more focus has been given to phishing and scamming since there have been significant losses to the global economy as a result of these attacks. The chapter looked at the evolution of phishing and identified its rise, fall, and yet another rise. The most effective type of phishing that has caught the attention of users, vendors, corporate organizations, legal firms, and the cyber security industry is business email compromise. The chapter has looked at this type of phishing in depth and analyzed several real emails sent to targets. The chapter also identified the two commonly used malwares that are commonly used in the theft of money and data, Ardamax and LokiBot. Ardamax...