• Karan Mehta
• Tanmay Gupta
• Niket Shah

Phishing is a challenging, well known security attack. Phishing attacks are used to attain sensitive data of a customer like username, passwords, personal identification numbers PINs number etc. In a phishing attack the target user is tricked into entering his/her sensitive credentials in some fake website created by the attacker. For example, let’s assume that an attacker is interested in attaining the target user’s Facebook username and password. Then the attacker creates a fake Facebook login page that is an exact replica of the original site. The target user is tricked into visiting the fake Facebook page and entering his/her credential information. Once the target user has entered his/her credentials and hits the submit button the attacker has access to the target users information. The target user can be directed to the fake website in many ways. One of the ways includes sending the target user an email, the contents of which are written in such a way that it look like a legitimate email, so that the spam filter does not classify the email as spam. The content of the email is written with an intention to hook the target’s interest. Once the user’s interest is piqued he/she is bound to open the link of the fake website, therefore falling into attackers trap.

Phishing, Web Security, Facebook Phishing.

"Phishing Websites Detection Using Python And R", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.1-11, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907A24.pdf

"Phishing Websites Detection Using Python And R", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp1-11, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907A24.pdf