JIMS8I - International Journal of Information Communication and Computing Technology
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 4
  • Issue: 2

Waterhole-A cyber espionage attack: Survey

  • Author:
  • Bharat Luva1, Chandresh Parekh2
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 221 to 225

1M.tech cyber security, Raksha Shakti University Ahmedabad, Email: bharat.luva@gmail.com

2Assistant professor, Raksha Shakti University Ahmedabad, cdp_tc@rsu.ac.in

Online published on 22 June, 2017.

Abstract

Network security is a one of the key aspect of cyberspace to be emphasized. Many threats, vulnerability and attack associated with network concerned critical in today's digital age, which have been steadily increasing. Many factors affected to the escalation of the risks by network attacks against intrusion control systems. Continuing to rise of network breach in electronics industry done by poisoning the target place for steal credentials and confidential information of victims

A watering hole attack is a trust exploit, Part of phishing, designed to compromise groups of people with common interests. It is highly customized to the recipient to increase the chance of exploitation for financial or corporate gain. The idea here is to attack the waterhole site, set a trap, infect it and then wait for visitors to show up.

This paper discusses vulnerability in network security and spear phishing threat in internet privacy.

Keywords

Waterhole attack, spear phishing, network security, vulnerability, corporate espionage