Email Hacking

Email Hacking 

The fourth type of hacking is email hacking and in this type hackers attempt to an email address without permission. The electronic mail is more used than the traditional mail boxes and that’s due to the evolution, emails are used today mostly as a form of communication due to its options. There are two types of services web-based: an email service which is open-based and that means this type deliver email accounts to any customer, some of them are for free but some request fees and the other type give email accounts controlled and organized by companies for employees, and in general students and members only. There are three big forms of attacks: spam, virus or phishing. The first type of attack is realized by delivering huge email broadcasts which contains a hidden IP address or email addresses, a spam message usually contains something very attractive such as low-priced travel tickets, job offers and in general any kind of offers and to be more attractive spammers use a lot of colors and photos. Some of the hack victims may open the magic message, read it and get really interested in its content. 

How to use Phishing attack?

There are three types of phishing, the first type is known as Spear Phishing and it’s used to attack target people, companies and organizations, 91% of email attacks are made with this kind of phishing and most of them are successful. The next phishing type is called Clone Phishing and its adepts clone emails by creating identical ones and the last type of phishing is known as Whaling, people use this term to describe a high profile attack made using phishing method.