The threat landscape is changing very quickly and most of the attacks use hyperlinks to initiate the attack and steal credentials, install malware, or exploit vulnerabilities. As discussed earlier, most of these links are sent through email (phishing attack). As illustrated in the following screenshot, there are different variants of the attack. The hacker enters through sending a well-crafted email to an innocent employee, who does not notice anything suspicious about the mail, clicks on the link to an untrusted location, which helps the attacker to establish a connection to the network via compromising the internet service.
With the exploit, they steal passwords and then expand within the network through ...
