Watering Hole Attack explained in Cyber Security

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Watering Hole Attack explained in Cyber Security






Ok friends.

For this one, we are talking about Watering Hole Attacks in Cyber Security.

But what does Watering Hole exactly mean?

Watering Hole is basically the location where targets gather and meet, much like animals gathering at a watering hole in the wild.

From a technical point of view, A Watering Hole Attack is a type of cyber attack in which the attacker compromises a website that is likely to be visited by their target audience. The goal is to infect the target’s computer or network with malware by exploiting vulnerabilities in the website or its plugins.

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Umm, ok, but, what does that mean?

Look, the whole idea behind Watering Hole Attacks is when an organisation has a solid cyber security structure and cannot be hacked, then this creates a problem for hackers.

And because of this high level of security structure, hackers will look into other ways to hack into an organisation.

So, instead of attacking the target ( you know the organisation ), they will infect a third party, which hopefully, an employee or a staff inside the target organisation can visit one day and then they become hacked.

This third party is basically, the watering hole.

Remember, the place where targets inside the organisation meet and then become hacked.

That third party can be a website, network or email attachment or even an application.

Once they are hacked by visiting that third party, hackers now have access into your organisation’s network.

If we were to put some imaginary steps into how a watering hole attack would work, it would be in the following order:

Target Selection, Identifying the Watering Hole, Compromising the third party aka the Website, Malware Delivery, Avoiding Detection, Reconnaissance, Data Exfiltration and finally once the goal is achieved, Covering Tracks.

Thank you for watching the video all the way to the end.

I hope you found it useful.

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