PROECTION SHIELD OF ORGANIZATION
Whether financial or banking, personal or strategic, today corporate data is considered a treasure trove, and hackers compete to try to seize it. Cybersecurity has therefore become an essential weapon to defend against the many cyber-attacks that take place each year around the world.
“Phishing or phishing is one of the
most widespread cyberattacks”
Here are going to explore and find out what phishing is and how to protect yourself from it.
What Is Phishing?The
word phishing comes from the contraction of two English words: “phreaking” which means “telephone hacking” and “fishing” which means “fishing”. In French, phishing is
translated as phishing.
This
is a widely used fraud technique on the Internet that allows hackers to recover
sensitive personal data (banking information, passwords, etc.) from Internet
users by pretending to be a trusted third party such as your bank, your energy
supplier, a public institution (such as health insurance, taxes, etc.), your
Internet access provider (ISP) or telephone, or even an e-commerce site.
Phishing
is mainly carried out by email, but you can also fall victim to this fraudulent
technique via social media, text messages or over the phone.
How Does Phishing
Works?
Most
often, you will receive an email that appears to be from a trusted organization
or business asking you to click on a link to update your personal information,
pay pending bills, view a message, or download an attachment.
However,
the link directs you to a bogus website, a copy of the original, created by
hackers. The information you enter is then retrieved directly by the fraudsters
who will use it to usurp your identity or extract money from you.
As
for the attachments, they contain viruses or malware that affect your computer
and can, depending on the type, block access to your files in exchange for
ransom (ransomware); collect personal information (spyware); or damage your
computer or the corporate network (worms).
Tips To Fight Phishing
Unlike
other cyber-attacks that exploit possible vulnerabilities in computer systems
or computers, phishing takes advantage of human naivety.
It
is therefore essential to encourage your employees to be suspicious before
opening an email, and to train them to identify phishing attempts and learn the
right actions to adopt to avoid biting the email 'fish hook’
Avoid opening emails
from unknown recipients
Always
be wary of messages you receive from complete strangers, even more so if they
offer you gifts or sums of money for no reason. Avoid opening the email, but
most importantly, avoid clicking on the link in the message or downloading the
attachment.
Verify email address
You
have just received a message from your bank, your electricity supplier or
Internet access, but you are in doubt? First, verify the sender's email address.
Does it match that of the messages you usually receive? Does it contain the
domain name of the company? For example, Free Mobile's email address should be
freemobile@free-mobile.fr, not log@adiciel.fr. Also pay attention to the
spelling which can sometimes be very close: BMP Pariibas instead of BNP
Paribas.
Check the link in the
email
To
do this, position your mouse over the link without clicking to display the
address. You can then check if the link address matches the real address of the
organization contacting you. Be careful because this can sometimes be very
subtle and play with a single character (one letter less, one letter duplicated
or one letter replaced by another).
Have an updated
antivirus software
You
should have a best antivirus software which should be installed in your computer and that should be updated time-to-time, so that
your antivirus software can detect the threats and notify you about it and take
action against it.
Look at the domain name
You
opened an email and clicked on the link, but once on the website, you are asked
to enter your personal and / or bank details, and you are in doubt. Check the
website address to make sure you're on the right site, and not on a copy
created by crooks. As with the email address, pay attention to the spelling
Pay attention to
spelling and image quality
Most
phishing attempts are written with spelling errors and poor syntax, and / or
contain poor quality, often rasterized images. Today, however, the quality of
phishing emails tends to improve, so be very careful.
Train your employees in
cybersecurity
Today,
training and raising the awareness of all employees of a company are the best
defenses against the risk of cyber-attacks. Thus, they will be more suspicious,
they will be able to identify the various online threats and they will know
what attitudes to adopt.
Communicate securely
When
you need to discuss sensitive topics or share confidential data with your
employees, customers, partners or suppliers, favor the use of secure chats with
encryption rather than e-mail. The same goes for sharing sensitive documents or
files for which you can use secure data rooms.
Finally,
be aware that no organization will ever ask you for your bank details. Such a
request should immediately alert you.
Following all these tips and points will help you in protecting your organization from phishing attack and in becoming a shield for your organization in data loss and privacy breach.
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