Prepare your team for the next phishing threat by "schooling" them on these 5 types of attacks.
As most outdoors enthusiasts can tell you, there's a reason it's called fishing, and not catching.
Despite all your preparation and skill, that coveted fish can be hard to catch. The same goes for phishing, a cybercriminal tactic that involves email messages crafted to capture a person or an organization's sensitive data. More and more, these sophisticated attacks are hard to catch.
They're also expensive. According to Datto, one phishing email has the power to cause downtime for your entire business, to the average cost of $53,987.
Your best defense as an organization is education. Prepare your team for the next phishing threat by "schooling" them on these 5 types of attacks.
Wide net phishing emails are sent to the masses from a knock-off corporate entity asking them to enter their credentials or credit card details. Attacks that rely on email spoofing appear as if a trusted sender sent them, but there are few telltale signs to look for:
Directly targets a specific organization or person with tailored phishing emails.
Whaling refers to spear-phishing attacks directed specifically at senior executives and other high-profile targets in an attempt to gain access to company platforms or financial information.
The attacker copies a legitimate email message sent from a trusted organization and replaces a link that redirects to a malicious/fake website.
Pretexting involves an attacker doing something via a non-email channel (e.g., voicemail) to set an expectation that they’ll be sending something seemingly legitimate shortly only to send an email that contains malicious links.
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