CyberNina

Melissa refers to a virus, that Written in macro language (visual basic for application languages that use to create MS excel and other word processing software) and disseminates through e-mail attachment. It was the first malicious software which contains the virus, worm, and Trojan as one package and it was found in 1998-1999 span. Melissa has the capability to affect over 1 million computers within 3 days. Once your device is infected by Melissa, receiving emails will be blocked. The email which carries out the Melissa virus has subject line as “important message from someone” and body text starts with “here is that document you asked for… don’t show anyone else”. The email attachment typically stars as ‘LIST.Doc’. When the recipient opens the email or clicks on the attachment, the software will be immediately activated. Then it sends the same email to the emails addresses which are in the victim’s mail address book. And also it copies itself to documents that are in infected...

Phishing is a trap to get your sensitive data through email which seems, it is from a trusted and well-known sender. This fraudulent attempt is done by online scammers (cybercriminal) to steal your identity and passwords to do crimes. The term “Phishing” was first used in 1996 that occurred in Usenet newsgroup called AOHell. Since the earlier hackers are called “Phreaks”, the ‘f’ in fishing replaced by ‘ph’. Even phishing attacks start to propagate through email, now it held by phone calls too. Mostly the attackers target a certain group or individual, Instead of sending emails to a large number of people. And those email seems like it is from reputed organization. Phishing emails make recipient panic by saying that your account has been hacked or there is an unrecognized activity occurred in your account and forced them to change their credentials using a given link. On the other hand, victims encourage to click on the link by saying that they have won a reward . When the receiv...