The mere receipt of unwanted emails from unknown senders is not dangerous. However, when people open suspicious emails that find their way past the basic spam filters, they communicate with scamming companies directly. Worse yet, when automated images become loaded into your email, a spammer can see whether opening incoming mail or re-opening emails can be a big problem.
Spammers will continue their attack vectors with more annoying spam emails, especially with more artificial intelligence(AI) adoption. The article discusses the role of companies like email security provider Trustifi and the value of their inbound protection layer powered by AI to stop spam messages from getting through.
Good AI Against Bad AI?
Sounds like a sci-fi movie!
The thin red line between the attack versus the defense against spam will exist between expert security providers like Trustifi and these global spammers.
As good email security companies enhance their AI to fight AI-powered spammers, organizations must consider partnering with companies like Trustifi that deliver optimal email security protection with an ease-of-use management console. Hackers and spammers also create bad AI to serve their purposes as well.
Phishing scams also have become AI-powered by phishers and spammers. Thanks in part to bad AI, the volume of malicious emails globally continues to grow.
Where Did These Spam Messages Come From?
In 2022, almost one million emails had malicious hyperlinks originally from several countries, including Iran, North Korea, Nigeria, and Vietnam, just to name a few.
Spam emails can spread viruses and “phish” information through their major email service providers, including Microsoft and Google.
Those Pesky Newsletters or Mailing lists!
Why do I get so many spam messages and fraudulent phishing emails daily? The spamming company purchases bulk mailing lists of specific email addresses for their rogue emails. If your email address suddenly sees more spam, you could be part of a scam email list that became purchased.
Yes, when you subscribe to a newsletter every week or join a mailing list with your email address, you are asking to be spammed! Spammers will seek newsletters, other accounts, and mailing lists as a source for their spam emails.
What Can Be Done?
First, unsubscribe to all newsletters you don’t wish to receive content from. Also, do the same with mailing lists. Once you have rid yourself of those, see a drop in spam messages.
If you want to receive information from a newsletter, please use a secondary email address! Only use this email for subscriptions! The Chrome browser makes it easier to move between email accounts. Click on the profile icon at the top right and toggle between your Google profiles. Using multi-email addresses can protect you from malware, including Trojan horses.
Are Trojan Horses Real?
Yes, a trojan horse is a tool used by hackers to gain control of your systems. Phishing emails and spam are the preferred delivery methods for spammers and hackers when they send out Trojan horse malware.
Trojans become disguised as legitimate programs in software updates and patches. Trojan horses use deceptive tactics to bypass email security defense solutions, including sitting dominate for several months before becoming activated.
Installing a security program, including third-party email security anti-spam and anti-virus, might help you stop such trojan infections.
Do you think I should Respond to Spam Emails?
Sadly, some emails contain ad messages that you have won a million dollars for having a secret admirer in Nigeria. Spammers sometimes try well-written statements to appear legitimate and even try to elicit someone you know on social media.
If you respond, a spammer will flag that you were a responder, and they will then concentrate on you to make you click a fraudulent link.
Recommendation: Leave it alone if anything hits your spam folder, and let the email security solution remove the contents from this folder. However, sometimes legitimate emails will land in the spam folder. Schedule a weekly coffee or tea break and quickly scan your inbox for this folder to see if any legitimate messages landed in this spam folder.
Bringing Trustifi’s Email Security into the Battle Against Spammers.
Trustifi’s advanced email inbound protection engine, powered by adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning, scours all emails and tracks malicious links and attachments containing possible malware for spam attacks.
Trustifi’s expertise in email protection, threat intelligence, data loss prevention, and messaging and file encryption provides several layers of protection for clients to battle email spam attacks lending to business email compromise, credential theft, and data exfiltration.
The Trustifi Advantage: Integrated, Pre-Delivery, Ease-of-Use
Trustifi, a global leader in advanced email security, understands the complexity of stopping all email attacks, including spam. International service providers and national organizations rely on Trustifi’s cloud-based platform to deliver the needed capabilities to protect their users from all email security attacks. The company delivered one of the most comprehensive email security platforms to the market with features that offer value, protection, and scale.
The effectiveness of pre-delivery email security by Trustifi is the proven method to stop zero-click attacks. To stop zero-click attacks, organizations need to deploy several layers of email security protection, including:
- Anti-virus
- Anti-Malware
- Anti-Spam
- Anti-Bot
- Anti-Phishing
- AI-Powered Threat Metrics
- Domain Spoofing
- Data Tokenization
Trustifi delivers on these capabilities without the complexity of multiple devices and integration between various security vendors.
These pre-delivery protection layers embedded within Trustifi’s advanced cloud-based platform become fully integrated to help prevent zero-click attacks, ransomware, account takeover, and data theft.
Leveraging a cloud-based solution, organizations can scale up and out to meet their email security needs without affecting the productivity of their users. Cloud-based solutions enable clients to deploy these features to help stop zero-click attacks from a single console.
Why Trustifi?
Trustifi is a cyber security firm featuring solutions delivered on software as a service platform. Trustifi leads the email management market with the easiest-to-use and deploys email security products, providing both inbound and outbound email security from a single vendor.
As a global cybersecurity provider of both inbound and outbound email protection, Trustifi currently supports customers from countries including the USA, Canada, Brazil, the Dominican Republic, the UK, the Netherlands, India, the UAE, China, and Japan, Cyprus, the Philippines, and more. The company has also developed “One-Click Compliance” capabilities that cater to world security regulations, including PDPO for Hong Kong, POPI for South Africa, GDPR for Europe, and LGPD for Brazil.
