Despite the trailblazing technologies and security measures to protect organizations, phishing attacks through scam emails have increased over time. Apparently, a red alert for companies across the globe to take proactive measures immediately, detect phishing, and save their businesses from unexpected damages.
Red flags you cannot miss noting!
- $1,797,945 estimated worldwide loss per minute due to cybercrime.
- 80% of the global organizations experienced phishing scams.
- 96% of phishing attacks are made through emails.
And it doesn’t end here.
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Here are the impacts caused to businesses due to phishing
- 60% of the organization lost their data
- 29% of the companies were infected with malware
- 47% of the firms were infected by ransomware
- 18% of the organization encountered financial loss
With these precarious attacks, the motives are always detrimental. And it is more crucial for organizations now, than ever, to be more cautious and protect their organizations from phishing. Remember, every individual in the organization is responsible to leverage security measures and determine the difference between spoofers and genuine sources.
How does it look when you are the victim of phishing attacks?
An easy way is a thoughtful approach toward all the emails that you receive in your inbox. Identify the signals and keep an eye on the alerts to protect your customers, your networks, and your data.
- Sense of urgency in the language: You’d notice that the emails have an emotional tint to convince you. You’d also receive notification or alerts from a legitimate source that’s hard to ignore. Don’t get persuaded. They are mere tactics to make you open emails and deliver malware to your system.
- Spoofy sender/recipient’s address: When you see that the email address is unfamiliar, has a new domain name, and is rather susceptible, avoid opening them. Your action of opening such an email could be too dangerous and certainly affect your business.
- Mismatch and typos: when you have a single error or a typo, you could ignore it as we all tend to do such mistakes. But, when you have too many errors, with mismatching details, emojis with duplicate logos & colors, and the content quality is clumsy and poor, know that it is not from a legitimate source.
- Seeking sensitive/confidential info: Your email copy seeking passwords, account details or anything of such info might include fake records and deceiving details to manipulate you. They are strong signals for you to determine that they are spoofers on the other side of the email.
- Generic opening but a compelling subject line: You will notice that the opening is too generic (due to mass emails), but there is a compelling subject line and CTA. So, you now know what it indicates! All that these emails want from you is to open them and make a clear way to enter them into your systems.
But wait! What if we said, there is a way out too?
Here comes the good part. You can still make safe ways and avoid becoming the victim!
Want to know how?
Here you go!
5 tips to evade phishing’s scary trade and make your companies less of a target!
Tip # 1 – Leverage Trainings and Include Test
Having your workforce get professional training and awareness can do wonders. They should be aware of what needs to be done and when. Let your team know the different types of phishing attacks and scams, so they are prepared beforehand.
Tip # 2- Mailbox profiling and User behavior analysis
Ensure that you perform mailbox profiling to detect and prevent your mailboxes from hyper-targeted phishing emails. Filter the emails based on the content and signatures and include a multi-layered security approach. Hover on the given link and crosscheck whether the landing page is an entrusted site.
Tip # 3 – Use advanced security features
For all the users who deal with crucial and confidential data, enforce multi-factor authentication on all of those accounts. This will protect credential theft and other kinds of data theft.
Tip # 4 – Report phishing and suspicious emails
When your employees spot phishing, encourage them to report it immediately. When you have more reports, you will work on them and increase the resilience thereby. Include phishing intelligence and encourage the team to defend such malicious attacks proactively.
Tip # 5 – Web gateways and Anti-virus Software
Perform thorough URL filtering and block domains that are suspicious. Do complete URL filtering and use a strong anti-virus. Also, don’t forget to update your software sporadically and keep a check on the updates.
The final words!
Now you know how dangerous these emails are to any organization when ignored. Following the steps mentioned above with complete data governance can help your business in the long run. If you still have doubts or do not know where to begin the security strategy for your organization, drop an email to us.
