Challenge: Phishing

Overview

This phishing challenge series consists of three hands-on scenarios designed to enchance your abillity to detect and respond to phishing attacks. First, you have to analyze a real phishing email to determine if it is legitimate or a phishing attempt. Then, you will experience the consequences of failing victim to phishing by unknowingly submitting credentials on a fake login page. Finally you will investigate email headers to uncover key indicators and detection used by attackers. Through these challenges, you will develop the basic skills needed to recognize and defend against phishing threats.

Objectives

 

• Understand the different types of phishing attacks.
• Learn to recognize the signs of a phishing attempt.
• Identify phishing indicators - Learn how to analyze emails URLs, and headers to detect phishing attempts.
• Interact with a fake login page, and analyze the email header to uncover supsicious elements.
 

Instructions

1. Read carefully the provided materials on resources section.
2. Enter the Moodle course and read the instructions how to connect there: https://course.cybersea-project.eu/
3. Complete the interactive task to practice identifying phishing attempts.

Resources

• Phishing guide
• Examples of Phishing attacks

Outcome

By completing this challenge series, you will gain practical experience in identifying phishing emails, understanding how credential theft occurs and analyzing email headers for security purposes. You will be better prepared to recognize phishing attempts, avoid failing victim to social engineering tactics and strengthen your cybersecurity awareness.