Stop suspicious phishing and other malicious emails before they reach your inbox. Never underestimate the power of an AI-enabled email phishing attack. Discover the best practices, updated information, tools, and tips to safeguard your business from suspicious email phishing attacks from the team at Trustifi.
Understanding Phishing Emails
Phishing is a typical cyberattack that perpetrators used to breach or gain access to a victim’s personal account and steal their personal information, such as bank account number, social security number, PINs, passwords, and credit card details. Phishing happens mostly through digital ads, inbound emails, or impostor websites similar to trusted sources such as your bank card company, an online payment website, or social networking websites. A recent survey in Security Magazine found that phishing email threats have increased substantially in 2020.
Information from a recent survey showed that 38% of respondents knew of a coworker who succumbed to a spam or phishing attack, exposing their companies’ systems and sensitive data to malicious intrusions with a single click. Yet, most employees cannot report these events to their security operations teams.
Email scammers and hackers imitate the US Government, the World Health Organization, and even hand sanitizer companies to trick victims into opening a malicious message and proceed on clicking malicious links, revealing valuable, sensitive information.
Trustifi is the industry leader in improving businesses’ cybersecurity, saving money, and saving I/T administrators’ time to prevent phishing. If a firm is the target of phishing attacks, the leaders at Trustifi recommend using the following methods to reduce and thwart a phishing message.
How to Block Malicious Email Attacks
Companies, however, can prevent phishing attacks and protect themselves from identity theft, fake emails, malicious links, and other sophisticated attacks. Several tools, such as an email gateway and spam filters, are available to safeguard users’ data from these attacks.
Think Before Clicking Any Link in an Email
Attackers trick users by creating spam emails that look realistic. Even when employees take proper measures against phishing according to their training, they become tricked into clicking the authentic-looking malicious email in their inbox and exposing valuable information.
Hence, it is essential to stay dubious even if the email seems genuine. To avoid these attacks, think before clicking any link in an email (read more about what a rogue URL is). No matter how authentic the message and how trusted the source is, employees should look closely at the URL and see if it is what they expect.
If the URL looks sketchy and is not what you expected, it is probably an email scam. PC and laptop users can hover the mouse cursor over the link and view the URL in the bottom left corner of the browser window. Mobile and tablet users can touch and hold the link with a finger to see the URL. Other common traits of phishing include poorly spelled messages with grammatical errors that start with a generic greeting such as “Dear Customer”.
Require Strong Password Safekeeping
The increased hacks, personal data thefts, and other malicious attacks should be enough to alert anyone to the need to protect passwords. Unfortunately, many employees don’t take login credentials seriously or update their passwords regularly, so phishing is always risky. If businesses want to stop malicious messages, they should keep their company’s password security as a top priority. The most used in 2020 were 123456, 123456789, and picture1.
Other popular passwords include “password,” QWERTY, Million2, abc123, Pokemon, I love you, dragon, chapbooks, omgpop, and princess. Companies that allow workers to choose their personal passwords without oversight may protect their database with at least a few of the abovementioned passwords. Hence, businesses should educate workers about the risks of using these common passwords to stop phishing scams.
Exercise Active Network Shielding
With the vast number of email scams aimed at small corporations, it is vital for organizations to continuously exercise the best network protective measures to lessen the danger of being targeted. Having a tight network decreases the adverse outcomes of cyberattacks and potential scams. It ensures a business’s database remains safe from phishing and other attacks while ensuring its clients enter only protected digital portals.
The following measures can increase the network’s resilience to attack:
- Activating web content filters
- Installing antivirus software and firewalls.
- Back up the data frequently.
- Deploy a combination of local device storage and cloud-based storage.
- Set passwords on all programs, tools, and devices.
Network security can prevent malicious messages, business email compromises, malware, data breaches, denial-of-service attacks, hacking, and more.
Provide Employee Training
Studies show that 23% of employees open phishing messages and 11% click on the email attachments in those messages. A fourth of the company’s staff risks the entire business with poor email handling. Organizations can mitigate information data loss by implementing regular cybersecurity awareness training and simulated phishing campaigns for employees.
When workers are educated about malicious emails, companies can dodge several attacks and learn how to report a phishing attack. Moreover, trained workers can alert other employees when they detect a phishing attack through email. Helping employees learn about sophisticated email attacks also helps reduce organization risk.
Choose Trustifi to Prevent Phishing Emails
Keeping a close eye on phishing attacks and managing everything from top to bottom could be a headache for a business, especially if they aren’t tech-savvy or don’t have access to valuable insight information.
However, with Trustifi’s secure email services, users can have peace of mind and eliminate the possibility of human error while effectively deterring phishing emails, leaking sensitive information, and downloading rogue attachments filled with malicious information. Trustifi protects consumers from phishing attacks by detecting emails and preventing them from entering the user’s inbox. When a company relies on Trustifi’s anti-phishing software to watch its back, it can focus confidently on its core business operations.
Contact a Trustifi representative today to learn the latest information report regarding email phishing and how powerful yet affordable phishing prevention can be.
