Phishing is a malicious way to obtain sensitive data such as usernames passwords and credit card details by disguising as a legitimate website. Nowadays phishing is wide-spread. It targets many sectors mainly e-commerce platforms and banking websites.
Although the security protection mechanisms are highly sophisticated phishers still manage to steal sensitive data. Further as humans are the weakest component in every security plan user anti-phishing awareness has become a necessity. Accordingly Anti-phishing Awareness application has been developed to serve users up with sufficient background that can act as an additional security layer against phishers' tricks. The application is a serious game. It teaches users various tricks and methods used by attackers to fool victims into disclosing their sensitive data. That is to say the application is an eight-level game at every playing stage users have the chance to discover a new trick used by phishers.
Additionally to help users browse the web more securely the application involves a scanner that scans URLs for suspicious phishing patterns.