Spammers are unaware that the email addresses they send messages to victims are viable. Spam is merely a malicious email campaign or dispatch of communication they expect someone inadvertently click.
Try to Avoid Clicking “Unsubscribe.”
Clicking the unsubscribe link in a spam email can worsen the problem and give the sender your contact information, validate your active email account, and provide an IP address.
Do not click the unsubscribe link if you get an unsolicited email or text on your phone. This click by the user enables criminals to know what your account is.
- Cyber attackers may try to trick users through fake “unsubscribe” links that lead to dangerous web pages. Please be careful about even familiar-looking URLs.
Spammers consistently blast out a lot of mailings masked as promotional emails. Unsubscribe links could lead to issues, including downloading viruses or ransomware onto the machine. Specifically, spammers use commonly used URLs to deliver malicious payloads, including malware and ransomware, leading to identity theft.
Unsubscribing from a suspicious email will not stop the scammer from continuing to send bulk emails with fraudulent marketing communications. While email marketing communications are not unlawful, hackers will use this email deliverability to attempt to bypass spam filtering solutions.
The Importance of the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003
Once the CAN-SPAM Act was enacted in 2003, scammer emails not containing an opt-out option could be reported to the Federal Trade Commission’s specific website subsection dedicated to spam email complaints.
The opt-out option is critical for organizations and users to leverage. Failure to honor the opt-out option could lead to financial penalties for the sending party. Senders will receive a negative reputation score and also become blacklisted. Reputation services will send blacklisted IPs across many global and internet email service providers, affecting these senders’ ability to transmit their spam.
Enabling Cloud-Based Email Security Platforms for Spam Protection
Spam will always exist through the email channel. Hackers and phishers continue to lure new victims into downloading malicious content, clicking on credential-stealing links, and opening suspicious attachments.
Cloud-based email security platforms like Trustifi have several layers to protect users. Stopping spam attacks require more than just technology. Users should know spam’s effect on their organization and personal data. Trustifi’s ease-of-use platform allows email administrators to run reports on spam attacks attempted against the organization. These robust security awareness reports help educate users to see what would happen if they needed a platform to protect their emails.
The Role Email Security Platforms Play in the Prevention of Spam Attacks
Trustifi advanced email inbound protection engine powered by adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning scours through inbound and outbound emails tracking malicious links and attachments containing possible malware for spam attacks. Trustifi’s expertise in email protection, threat intelligence, data loss prevention, and messaging encryption provides several layers of protection for clients to battle email spam attacks lending to business email compromise, credential theft, and data exfiltration.
Why Trustifi?
With Trustifi vendor consolidation and reduction of resource cost allocation, they align with the needs of small and midsize clients while not compromising on email protection, all with a single pricing model.
Trustifi offers a consolidated solution pricing to support small and midsize enterprise marketplaces. Trustifi requires fewer security operations, time allocation, and management resources.
The solution is API based, not an appliance requiring a complex re-configuration of your email flow. Trustifi installs in minutes and requires no maintenance or upkeep.
Trustifi’s agile platform offers several proven security controls to help prevent the following attacks:
- BEC: Trustifi protection: Trustifi’s BEC AI is trained and designed to detect text-based emails to perform social engineering attacks on employees.
- Pre-vishing attacks: Trustifi protection: Trustifi’s proprietary metrics can detect and quarantine pre-vishing attacks by unique identifiers.
- Spear Phishing: Trustifi protection: Trustifi uses AI, feeds, and proprietary metrics to detect and quarantine malicious emails, URLs, and files that aim to steal the recipient’s data.
- Impersonation: Trustifi’s advanced email security platform detects and tags the impersonation of the recipient’s contacts to ensure safe correspondence with a genuine connection. Also, it can identify actual emails from a brand.
- Account compromised: Trustifi protection: Trustifi has unique metrics to detect malicious emails even though it comes from a known contact and allows listed senders. And provide account compromise detection of breached internal mailboxes.
- New domains: Trustifi protection: Trustifi can detect additional parts and service abuse and quarantine the email.
Trustifi Single Console for Ease-of-Use Management
With a limited IT and security staff at most organizations, the clients need security solutions to manage more efficiently while meeting HIPAA, PCI, and other compliance mandates.
Trustifi’s email security services feature a comprehensive suite of tools for advanced threat protection, data loss prevention, and enterprise email encryption.
- Enable email authentication for both inbound and outbound emails.
- Protect against data loss from outbound emails.
- Enable rapid response to threats and sophisticated threats and attacks.
- Advanced Threat Protection against malware attacks
- Detection and prevention of email-borne threats and spam emails
- Spoofing, phishing, and fraud detection
- Email account compromise
- Zero-day threats
Trustifi’s Email detection and response (EMDR) offers clients access to experts to assist with the implementation.
Culture
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, 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.
