Spoofing impersonates trusted users, devices, or services to bypass trust and cause fraud; verify identities with strong authentication and signed messages.
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Spoofing is the forging of an identity or origin so a message, connection, website, or phone call appears to come from a trusted source. Attackers may impersonate an executive by email, imitate a domain, falsify caller ID, or place packets with a forged source IP address. The goal can be to induce payment or disclosure, deliver malware, bypass trust checks, or obscure the source of traffic. IP spoofing usually prevents a reply from reaching the attacker, but can support reflection attacks; it is not by itself proof of access to the claimed system.
Mitigation depends on the channel. For email, configure and enforce SPF, DKIM, and DMARC, while treating display names and caller ID as untrusted signals. Use phishing-resistant authentication, verify sensitive requests through an independent channel, and validate domains and certificates before users enter credentials. At network boundaries, apply ingress and egress source-address filtering, monitor anomalous traffic, and design services not to trust a claimed address alone.
Threat actors have been leveraging fake websites advertising popular video conferencing software such as Google Meet, Skype, and Zoom to deliver a variety of malware targeting both Android and Windows users since December 2023
Researchers Say Hackers Used Fake Login Pages to Trick 100 Victims, Crypto WorkersA new phishing campaign is targeting victims through mobile devices by mirroring legitimate login pages for the Federal Communications Commission and large cryptocurrency platforms including Binance and Coinbase. At least 100 victims, including crypto company employees, have fallen for the scam.