Anti-Phishing Awareness

L'application Anti-Phishing Awareness enseigne aux utilisateurs comment repérer une URL de phishing.

Phishing is a malicious way to obtain sensitive data such as usernames, passwords, and credit card details by disguising as a legitimate website. Nowadays, phishing is wide-spread. It targets many sectors, mainly, e-commerce platforms and banking websites.

Although the security protection mechanisms are highly sophisticated, phishers still manage to steal sensitive data. Further, as humans are the weakest component in every security plan, user anti-phishing awareness has become a necessity. Accordingly, Anti-phishing Awareness application has been developed to serve users up with sufficient background that can act as an additional security layer against phishers' tricks. The application is a serious game. It teaches users various tricks and methods used by attackers to fool victims into disclosing their sensitive data. That is to say, the application is an eight-level game, at every playing stage, users have the chance to discover a new trick used by phishers.

Additionally, to help users browse the web more securely, the application involves a scanner that scans URLs for suspicious phishing patterns.