Overview What You Will Learn Curriculum Instructor

Course Overview

Phishing is one of the most common cybersecurity threats, targeting individuals and organizations through deceptive emails, malicious links, and social engineering techniques. Understanding phishing attacks and their methods is essential for identifying security risks, strengthening defenses, and improving awareness of email-based threats. This course begins with an introduction to phishing and spear phishing, exploring the motivations behind phishing campaigns, campaign planning, email-based attacks, link attacks, URL shorteners, and phishing tools such as SET and Lucy. It also covers information gathering, social media OSINT, Google advanced search operators, spam filter evasion concepts, phishing email analysis, security practices, and real-world phishing email examples. Additional chapters include phishing quizzes, practical email identification tips, and the use of ChatGPT to detect Cyrillic characters in suspicious messages. You will learn to recognize phishing techniques, analyze suspicious emails and links, understand phishing campaign methods, and apply security awareness practices to help protect against phishing threats.

What You Will Learn

  • Understand phishing and spear phishing techniques.
  • Identify common phishing emails and link-based attacks.
  • Explore phishing tools and campaign setup.
  • Learn best practices for detecting and preventing phishing.
  • Analyze real-world phishing scenarios and attack methods.

Program Curriculum

  • Introduction
  • What Will You Need
  • Disclaimer
  • What Is Phishing Spear Phishing
  • Why Phish Me
  • Why Launch a Phishing Campaign
  • Why Not Be the Bad Guy
  • Prep
  • Auth Form
  • Plan of Attack
  • Once or Often
  • Complex
  • Paid vs. Free
  • Free Coming Next
  • Phishing Email with Free Email
  • Link Attacks
  • URL Shortner
  • SET
  • Android Phishing and Lucy
  • Information Gathering
  • Windows Maltego
  • Mobile OSINT Social Media Basics
  • Getting Past the Spam Filter
  • Using the Right Bait
  • Google It
  • Google Advance Operators
  • Website Checking
  • Dnschecker
  • Phishing Emails
  • Other Tips
  • OOPs
  • Security
  • Additional Security
  • Security Isn't Always Easy
  • Congrats
  • Updated SNDBOX with SOUND
  • Norton Scam Email
  • Chapter 1 Quiz

  • Phishing Quiz 1
  • Phishing Quiz 2
  • Phishing Quiz 3
  • Phishing Quiz 4
  • Chapter 2 Quiz

  • Chapter 3: Additional Phishing Email Examples and Tips
  • Additional Phishing Email Tips
  • ChatGPT Detect Cyrillic
  • Chapter 3 Quiz

Instructor

Jeff Minakata

Jeff Minakata has worked in the IT industry for over 22 years. He holds various cybersecurity certifications, networking certifications, and engineering certifications such as C|OSINT Certified, trained in CEH v8, CEH v9, CEH v11, CISP, Metasploit certified, Accredited Configuration Engineer (ACE), MCSI OSINT Practitioner, and CWA certified. He is an Online Instructor for OSINT, ethical hacking, and network security. He has contracted courses for EC-Council, Udemy, and has written articles for Hackin9 and eForensics magazine. Jeff currently works on the computer networking side and teaches ethical hacking, OSINT, and cybersecurity online. He is passionate about helping people understand OSINT, ethical hacking, and cybersecurity.

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