An Enhanced Countermeasure Technique for Deceptive Phishing Attack

The trust on internet and e-banking are more affected and attacked by fraudulent activities performed by fake web sites. When their look and feel is similar to legitimate web sites users spoofed very much. Online criminal activity are using the collection of social engineering methods such as messages and emails to make the users to disclose their sensitive information such as personal details, username password, etc. The strong techniques are required to avoid fraudulent fund attacks. In the proposed work Multi Factor Authentication (MFA) and secure session key generation using Gaussian distribution to reduce the attacks caused by the attackers. Multi Factor Authentication technique authenticates the users using users finger print image recognition and secret question answer. After successful authentication of user using Multi Factor Authentication technique, session key generated using Gaussian distribution is sent to users mobile phone. User proceeds with the transaction only after entering the session key received. Every time user attempts their authentication the counter measure will perform and made action when user attempt more than 3 times. By incorporating above mentioned techniques users can perform online transactions safely and securely.