How Clickbaits Work

Let me bombard you with some links

https://www.google.com/search?q=clickbait&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-b-m

https://neilpatel.com/blog/why-clickbait-works/amp/

Now that you have recovered from reading the list and recovering yourself to your present state of your mind here we go

Well most of you are aware about it in a way that you you do it in your daily life but not in a way that you know about it in a technical way or manner

Wasn't that strange

You are falling victim to an unknown entity

and clicking or gulping or or allowing information that is not much relevant to enter your brain and polluted corrupt your mind

Well that's how social media like YouTube Facebook WhatsApp Instagram Twitter all work

they have algorithms designed specifically to force you into clickbaiting particular stuff and recommendations that you like so that they can keep you engage for a more period of time on the website and earn for increase their profits in the ad revenues that the earn through a single video that is through the advertisement that is shown before a video or in a particular embedded link within the page

Well after knowing that , you wouldn't stop using social media would you?

well what I'm saying is not that you shouldn't use social media but that you should be more careful the next time you use it

social media for entertainment or for other purposes so that only the relevant information it's shown to you and you

do not waste your precious mobile data

watching for viewing a information that might prove to be futile later in the future

I would like to give you a very idea of how clickbaiting works

#it basically contains some lucrative attractive images

#it also includes a catchy slogan

#it also includes a title and thumbnail that might not be present in the actual content of the video but I just present so that you click on it and that they gain a view

how clickbaiting is related to the malicious phishing technique

Phishingis the fraudulent attempt to obtainsensitive informationsuch as usernames, passwords andcredit carddetails by disguising oneself as a trustworthy entity in anelectronic communication

Well that's how Wikipedia describes it , to put it shortly I would like to say a since people are more gullible to be clicking on a link That seems to be catchy to them or seems to be attractive lucrative in a way that it benefits them monitor really they would without a doubt head forward for clicking it, but what hides behind the link or the pdf that is been downloaded is a malicious code that is is targeted for them and when the victim installs it their system is compromised and their credentials are simply stolen away from them without them ever knowing about it

isn't it scary well you should be since it is quite easy for people with sufficient knowledge to steal away your passwords credentials related to banking websites which are considered to be safe but they will not be if you tend to make such silly mistakes

How to avoid phishing

#always look out if the deal sounds too much good to be true

#even do if the deal sounds to be somewhat genuine 20 to only buy online products from the website that you are confident about such as Flipkart Amazon eBay etc

#the art of phishing is mostly used for stealing credentials related to banking websites or websites which are of great importance to the victim, so in my opinion whenever you attend a email by your banking services make show that the sender of the email is a trusted one which can be simply checked by clicking on the name of the sender, also make sure to look out for grammatical mistakes since it is possible that the attack might make a grammatical mistakes since their native languages are usually not English, the last step well it is sort of my personal opinion I would like to say never indulge in any online transactions through email specifically since transactions are meant to be made through a secure gateway through the website and not through the email which might be susceptible to attacks

#when you visit a website look out for fonts that seem to be too artistic, well it is because since you are visiting a formal website the general font used as of the similar size and of the type times new Roman which is the standard for creating any formal documents

#also look out for the symentic and the images used on the the website because you might end up clicking accidentally on an image which is internal a payload created by the attacker that might compromise your system and intern will enable him to steal all of your credentials related to your banking website on social media websites and therefore compromising your account and life

#also never take something from free literally if a product on web pages that it's free or its 0 prized and if the deal seems too good to be true avoided I mean seriously avoided because no one would want to give away their products which in a certain manufacturing cost associated with them to be given away for a free prize to the masses since it is a basic fundamental of business to work that they should on a certain amount of profit, without profit the business won't work and would eventually die that's not what a owner would want so why would you want to buy a product that itself is doubtful to be purchased

#also look out for deals that have an associated time out because it is a psychological tricks used by the attacker to fool you into clicking on it before the time expires since instinctively we are program to finish task before a certain deadline

well that's a brief intro to get more details about it please mention in the comments