Phishing, Spear Phishing,
and Vishing
Phishing
Protect your organization from sophisticated phishing, spear phishing, and vishing attacks with Raxis’ expert-led simulations, comprehensive training, and advanced threat detection services that expose and mitigate social engineering vulnerabilities.
Strengthen Your Defenses Against Targeted Cyber Threats
Cybercriminals are constantly evolving their tactics, making phishing, spear phishing, and vishing some of the most effective methods to breach organizations. At Raxis, we help you stay ahead of these threats with expert-led simulations, employee training, and actionable insights to protect your business.
What is Phishing?
Phishing is a widespread cyberattack where attackers send fraudulent emails or messages pretending to be trusted entities. These emails often include malicious links or attachments designed to steal sensitive data like passwords, financial information, or login credentials. Phishing casts a wide net, targeting large groups of people in hopes that someone will fall for the bait.
What is Spear Phishing?
Spear phishing is a more targeted and sophisticated form of phishing. Instead of sending generic messages to many people, attackers research specific individuals or organizations to craft highly personalized emails. These emails often appear to come from colleagues or trusted sources, increasing their success rate. Spear phishing is commonly used to steal sensitive corporate data or initiate unauthorized financial transactions.
What is Vishing?
Vishing, or voice phishing, uses phone calls or voicemails to trick individuals into revealing confidential information. Attackers often impersonate trusted organizations like banks or IT departments to create a sense of urgency and manipulate victims into providing sensitive details such as passwords, account numbers, or verification codes.
Why Choose Raxis?
- Expert-Led Simulations: Our team of ethical hackers uses the same tools and techniques as real attackers to test your defenses.
- Customized Solutions: We tailor our services to address your industry-specific risks and organizational needs.
- Proven Results: Raxis has helped companies across industries strengthen their security posture and prevent costly breaches.
How Raxis Protects Your Organization
Realistic Attack Simulations
Employee Awareness Training
Comprehensive Reporting
Continuous Improvement
Cyber threats evolve constantly. Our ongoing services ensure your organization stays prepared by adapting defenses to new attack methods and providing regular updates on emerging threats.
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Phishing for Credentials
Raxis Hack Stories
All stories are based on real events encountered by Raxis engineers; however, some details have been altered to protect our customers’ identities.
Oh, if clicks were wishes. After decades of extended car warranty negotiations and speed dates with Nigerian princes, nearly all organizations remain keenly aware phishing attacks are part of doing business. We’re all human, but it’s the forehead slap moments that seem to sting the most. Maintaining that vigilance while your inbox explodes on a Friday afternoon is no small challenge. We’ve all been there, and the bad guys know it. We don’t get to share too many of them, so sit back and enjoy a few war stories our team has been a part of. While no actual employees were harmed in the making of this story, they quickly learned that class was in session.
As with many other social engineering engagements, we created a phish based on a spoofed login portal. The assessment scope allowed our engineer to pivot off any harvested credentials. So, with that as the focus, he leapt at the first set that came in. Glee quickly faded as he found the organization enforced MFA through a push notification. Thinking the gig was up, our tester stepped away in search of commiseration coffee. Bingo! When he returned the user had approved the MFA push.
The best advice for outsmarting a professional phisherman is to confirm a communication’s legitimacy with the person or organization that allegedly sent it. But what about the phish within the phish? For this, our team created a complex phishing email claiming to be from our customer’s own IT department. Using company branding and styles found on publicly available customer sites, the branded email urged users to login to their email, using a link provided in the email of course, to re-authenticate after an upgrade. You guessed it, this link was for a phishing site that stole the entered credentials and then redirected, smoke and mirrors style, to an error page. Here’s where the darkness became all encompassing. Both the email and the error page provided a number to contact IT for help. Not only did employees enter credentials, but the phone started ringing. Grateful to have the call answered quickly by a friendly person, several of these people told our tester other sites where those credentials should work and provided info that helped our tester login. Trust and rapport were inferred because the employees made the call to the phisher instead of the other way around.