“Phishing”-Trojan

“Phishing”
Definition: Phishing is a type of attack aimed at obtaining a user's personal or confidential information. It typically involves some sort of spam email designed to lure a user to a spoofed web site.

Also Known As: Phishing Attack, Phishing Scam
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Definition: A Trojan is a program that appears to be legitimate, but in fact does something malicious. Trojans were responsible for the Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks suffered by Yahoo and EBay in the latter part of 1999. In fact, Trojans are often used to gain backdoor access - that is to say remote, surreptitious access, to a user's system. Trojans do not replicate as viruses do, nor make copies of themselves as worms do.

There are several different types of Trojans: Remote Access Trojans (RATs), Backdoor Trojans (backdoors), IRC Trojans (IRCbots), and Keyloggers. Many of these different types can be employed in one Trojan. For example, an Keylogger that also operates as a backdoor or RAT may commonly be hidden inside game hacks. IRC Trojans are often combined with Backdoors and RATs to create collections of infected computers known as botnets.