Hackers can access any email recipient’s valuable data, including intellectual property and cold hard digital cash. These sneaky attacks can take many forms but are typically aimed at unsuspecting email recipients.
There are ways to protect your organization from phishing scams.
This article discusses the various hooks and lures hackers to exploit their victims. Phishing continues to be one of the cybersecurity challenges facing users and organizations. Email security platforms like Trustifi powered by artificial intelligence continue to make positive inroads toward reducing attack surfaces.
Learn how to become “unhooked!” with Trustifi’s advanced AI email security platform.
Email Phishing Scams- The Story of the Hook!
Email scammers systematically research and concoct their attack strategies. Phishing can find many tools for their prose. Hooks and lures embedded within phishing emails come in all sizes and shapes. Hackers and phishers also use various phishing attack methods to help trick their victims into executing their attack patterns.
In addition, email vulnerabilities and users have become increasingly easier to phish; emails usually have several “hooks” that the recipient needs to detect to prevent attacks.
If you have become a victim of phishing, you will see the following messages or commands:
- A website demanding your change password immediately
- An email insisting your call a 1-888 number to speak to a collector of your debts
- A website redirect with a download of a suspicious file.
Grammatical Errors, Suspicious Email Addresses, and a Very Sharp Spear!
Spear phishing attacks, whaling, and double barrel are not just sporting events but actual names of phishing techniques. Hackers continue, thanks partly to Chat-GPT and other artificial intelligence tools, to create near-perfect phishing and pharming emails. The good news is the good guys like Trustifi also use artificial intelligence to help stop the near-perfect emails that seem out of place and or full of grammar problems.
Suspicious Attachments
Phishers will place their malicious payloads in infected attachments. These attachments may appear harmless. A Phisher may send fraudulent invoices demanding payment. When the recipient opens the file, the malware in the attachment infects the machine.
Victims’ computers become infected with malware that helps hackers carry out criminal activities.
Threats or a Sense of Urgency
Phishing or unsolicited emails often employ tactics such as threatening negative consequences or creating a sense of urgency to fluster the recipient and prevent a thorough examination of the message. As a result, we may view users who fall for these tactics.
Specifically, many phishing campaigns will target older adults in our communities with fraudulent emails; the sense of-urgency phishing lures come across as very hostile, often causing panic among its victims.
The AI-powered email security solutions from Trustifi pick up these tones embedded within the email and apply the various blocking capabilities and email spam filters.
What is the Importance of Email Security in Stopping a Phishing Hook?
Email security platforms like Trustifi scans the organization’s incoming and outgoing email. Trustifi can quickly recognize possible phishing attempts and quarantine these messages from unknown sources by applying advanced AI engines to all inbound messages. Trustifi integrated data loss prevention(DLP) for outbound messages helps protect against any data exfiltration caused by malware or ransomware attacks.
Trustifi, a global leader in cloud-based email security, understands the resource and budget challenges for many SMBs and mid-enterprise organizations facing malware and ransomware. These fully integrated protection layers managed by a single console include:
- Inbound Shield Protection with AI and ML Maturity Engines, Anti-phishing, and anti-virus software.
- Outbound Shield Protection with email encryption, data tokenization, and data loss prevention (DLP)
- Multi-factor authentication for further message projects and integration with Zero Trust Architectures
- Account Compromise Detection – Stop Attacks on Email Accounts, Neutralize Compromised Accounts, and Get Reporting, Automatically
- Managed Email Detection and Response Service – Access to Trustifi email security experts to assist with policy enablement and incident response.
Why Trustifi?
Trustifi is a cyber security firm featuring solutions delivered on software as a service platform. Trustifileads the 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.
