Popular phishing scams While it’s easy to teach your kids todownload apps only from trusted sourcesand usesecurity solutions, keeping them safe from phishing is more of a challenge. Here, it pays to keep your ears and eyes sharp: the more you and your kids know and read about new scams...
Recognizing Phishing Scams Phishing emails, whether widespread or targeted, tend to have a lot of common elements which can really help to identify them and ensure you deal with them appropriately. Here are some of the most common things we see in phishing emails: Claim that there is a proble...
It is important to remember that the phishing landscape continually evolves, so organizations must constantly train their employees on the latest phishing strategies to help reduce their risk and create a culture ofcybersecurity. When receiving a phishing email, it is most important to treat it...
1. Phishing attacksHow to prevent phishing scams2. Malware attacksPrecautions to protect against crypto-malware attacks3. Ransomware attacksHow can crypto ransomware attacks be prevented?4. Denial-of-service (DoS) attacksHow to mitigate the risk of a DoS attack5. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) ...
Mailsuite analyzed over 1.14 million reported phishing scams from January 2020 to March 2024, uncovering the impersonation trends.
Also known as “smishing", messaging scams are another type of phishing that occur through text messages, social media platforms, or messaging apps. In these cases, scammers may employ urgent or alarming scenarios, pretending to be from a bank or a trusted institution, aiming to create a sens...
In its latest Titan release R81.20, Check Point has also announced an inline security technology called ‘Zero Phishing’ was enhanced now with a new engine calledBrand Spoofing Prevention, designed to stop brand impersonation and scaled to detect and block also local brands t...
In some scams, the victim will receive a phishing email which flags up a suspicious login or purchase. It may ask the recipient to click a link or fill in details, and could even trigger a follow-up call from someone impersonating Zelle or your bank. ...
3. Gone Phishing The BBB says one of the most common phishing scams is targeting people working from home. Someone contacts you, claiming to be from IT, and demands access to your computer, to fix a problem. Or, they may send you to a link that, when clicked on, will give them free...
“According to an analysis by our experts,” Simoni observes, “the most popular scams in the USA in 2021 are fake offers / false promotions and phishing scams.” Between 01/01/2021 until 04/13/2021 PSafe detected and blocked both of these types of scams more than a million times ea...