{"id":23511,"date":"2024-05-19T05:41:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T00:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=23511"},"modified":"2025-04-07T03:01:58","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T21:31:58","slug":"what-is-vishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-vishing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Vishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Vishing<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a short form of <strong>voice+phishing<\/strong>, carried out through a <strong>call on a mobile phone or landline.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s a technique wherein a threat actor calls the victim over the phone and tries to trick him\/her into <strong>clicking on malicious files<\/strong> or emails, which can then take one to a legitimate-looking website asking to <strong>share personal information.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>In other cases, the attacker can solicit sensitive information from the victim.<\/li>\n<li>It can be so tricky that the caller might appear as the manager or colleague of the victim, enticing her to share sensitive information, at times using urgency as the tactic.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>How to spot a vishing scam?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>A pre-recorded message:<\/strong> On many occasions, a vishing call starts with an automated call claiming there\u2019s an urgency related to financial or other matters, making you click a few numbers or take certain actions.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pretending to be a government official:<\/strong> There\u2019s a very slim chance that a government official would directly call you or even email or text. And if you get a call from somebody claiming to be a government official, chances are high that it\u2019s not legitimate.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Using fear and urgency tactics:<\/strong> In case of a vishing attack, chances are that the scammer would stoke a sense of urgency using threat or fear.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Poor audio quality:<\/strong> If in doubt, also pay attention to the call\u2019s audio quality and any background noises. At times, there could be robotic-sounding voices, which could mean that it\u2019s a <strong>robocall.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Ransomware?<\/h3>\n<p>Ransomware is a malware designed to deny a user or organization access to files on their own computer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/life\/technology-beware-of-vishing-how-not-to-fall-prey-to-voice-call-frauds-3492956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Beware of vishing: How not to fall prey to voice call frauds<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vishing is a short form of voice+phishing, carried out through a call on a mobile phone or landline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}