All you need to know about spoofing

All you need to know about spoofing

What is spoofing?

Ans:-Text message spoofing or SMSspoofing is sending a text message with someone else's phone number or sender ID.

Types of spoofing 

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Email spoofing.

Website and/or URL spoofing.

Caller ID spoofing.

Text message spoofing.

GPS spoofing.

Man-in-the-middle attacks.

Extension spoofing.

IP spoofing.

Facial spoofing.

Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. The core email protocols do not have any mechanism for authentication, making it common for spam and phishing emails to use such spoofing to mislead or even prank the recipient about the origin of the message

Website spoofing is all about making a malicious website look like a legitimate one. The spoofed site will look like the login page for a website you frequent—down to the branding, user interface, and even a spoofed domain name that looks the same at first glance. Cybercriminals use spoofed websites to capture your username and password (aka login spoofing) 

Caller ID spoofing happens when scammers fool your caller ID by making the call appear to be coming from somewhere it isn't. Scammers have learned that you're more likely to answer the phone if the caller ID shows an area code the same or near your own. In some cases, scammers will even spoof the first few digits of your phone number in addition to the area code to create the impression that the call is originating from your neighborhood (aka neighbor spoofing)

Text message spoofing or SMS spoofing is sending a text message with someone else's phone number or sender ID. If you've ever sent a text message from your laptop, you've spoofed your own phone number in order to send the text, because the text did not actually originate from your phone. 

GPS spoofing definition

GPS spoofing is an attack in which a radio transmitter located near the target is used to interfere with a legitimate GPS signals. The attacker can transmit no data at all or could transmit inaccurate coordinates

Man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack. You like that free Wi-Fi at your local coffee shop? Have you considered what would happen if a cybercriminal hacked the Wi-Fi or created another fraudulent Wi-Fi network in the same location? In either case, you have a perfect setup for a man-in-the-middle attack, so named because cybercriminals are able to intercept web traffic between two parties. The spoof comes into play when the criminals alter the communication between the parties to reroute funds or solicit sensitive personal information like credit card numbers or logins.

IP spoofing is used when someone wants to hide or disguise the location from which they're sending or requesting data online. As it applies to cyberthreats, IP address spoofing is used in distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) to prevent malicious traffic from being filtered out and to hide the attacker's location.

A face spoof attack is an attempt to deceive a facerecognition system using a substitute for another's person's face – usually their photo, video recording or a 3D mask. If thespoofing attack succeeds, the fraudster acquires privileges or access rights of another person.