Since March 2020, according to IRONSCALES’s research; around 80 percent of businesses worldwide, has been an upsurge in email phishing threats. While Malaysians have reported a 65 percent spike in phishing emails directed at their employees. Despite the fact that phishing is a very real threat to businesses today, only 20% of them provide phishing awareness training to their employees once a year. This lack of understanding is one of the key reasons why phishing is still the most frequent sort of crime that resulting in a data leak. Furthermore, according to Google Safe Browsing data, there are now approximately 75 times as many phishing sites on the internet as there are malware sites.
There are numerous various types of social media frauds, but the phishing scam is by far the most popular. Phishing is a sort of cyberattack in which criminals utilise email, vishing (voice phishing), SMiShing (SMS phishing), pharming (directing users to bogus websites), ads, or other techniques to deceive you into exposing critical information. These impostors will frequently attract you by saying that you have won a prize or giveaway, then sending you a harmful link that could lead to ransomware, spyware, or a request for your personal information. For example, scammers attempt to imitate BURO Malaysia’s account recently, claiming to be controlled by the management team. Others should constantly be on the lookout for the red flags listed below.
🚩Red flags include:
- The sender’s email address contains a personal email address, a misspelt name, or additional space characters such as an underscore, hyphen, or period.
- A suspicious or altered link or any attachments appears in the email, message, SMS, or promotional content.
- Anything that is too good to be true
- any lotteries that you did not enter is IMPOSSIBLE to win
- Scam accounts on social media are typically secret, unverified (no blue tick), and/or unfollowed by the official account with which they claim to be linked.
- urgent or threatening language
- urgent things did not happen through email
- unprofessional design
- because somehow it is never on cyber criminal list of priorities
Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all approach to email security. We advocate establishing a multi-layered phishing defence strategy that includes both technical and human-centric solutions.
Suspicious emails and texts should be ignored or deleted. Do not click on any links or give out personal information without first verifying it with real businesses, organisations, or individuals via the appropriate contact methods. Block and report fraudulent social media accounts to inform the platforms and other parties to questionable activity.
Please consult your IT advisor before using any source of information, and feel free to contact us at [email protected] if you need further assistance.
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