What does a phishing email look like? We've compiled phishing email examples to help show what a spoofed email looks like to prevent against phishing attacks.
Phishing emails can steal sensitive data and cost companies' their reputation. However, protecting a company from these scammers doesn't need to be difficult.
Email threats are ever evolving, and it’s important to stay up to date. Here are the current most common email threats and how to identify and mitigate them.
So, what are the most common types of email threats today?
- Business Email Compromise
- Ransomware
- Phishing
- Spear Phishing
- Data Breach
- Spam
- Keyloggers
- Domain Impersonation
We’ll explain these and more. Then, we’ll cover how to prevent, mitigate, and recover from most email threats.
Spear phishing is more focused than normal phishing. To protect against this type of phishing, your entire company will need to be educated and protected.
What is a typical spear phishing attempt?
A typical spear phishing attempt is a fraudulent personalized email that is usually sent with an attachment or requests a response. The fraudster then tries to entice the recipient to open the infected attachment or respond with personal information.
Phishing attacks are all too common and can make a company lose millions of dollars. To protect against this scam, a company must have the right protocols and software in place.
What is a phishing attack?
A phishing attack is a social engineering attack, where an attacker mimics a trusted company or person to steal private information such as login or financial data. These attacks usually come as an email, text message or phone call.
“Whaling” phishing fraud attacks target the C-suite of a company which creates high risk of extremely sensitive, mission-critical data being stolen and exposed. Fortunately, protecting the organization from these attacks is possible.
Whaling phishing is a type of phishing attack targeting larger, high-value targets, which is why it's called "Whaling." Attackers themselves often pretend to be C-suite executives in emails to colleagues asking for personal or company information.
The 250% increase in business email compromise (BEC) scams over the past year should concern every organization, as should estimates of $26 billion in losses over the last five years from these attacks.
As email scammers become more sophisticated and cybercriminals expand their tactics, phishing and BEC attacks from compromised email accounts continue to rise in popularity. We’ve seen a 35% increase in attacks launched from compromised accounts in the last six months. This means that email account takeover-based threats are more prevalent than ever before. And since this is the hardest attack type to protect against, these threats are only going to become more dangerous.
The type of email attacks that helped derail Hillary Clinton’s presidential bid during the 2016 presidential election cycle could be a prelude to the aggressive tactics we may see in 2020—and new data suggests early candidates and their campaigns aren’t ready to defend themselves.
Marriott Hotels, Dunkin Donuts, even the House GOP. During the final quarter of 2018, a host of high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks have made major headlines.
Some stemmed from business email compromise (BEC) scams, spear phishing campaigns, or other advanced email threats. Others are expected to help fuel such attacks in the future. A few might see somebody fight back through innovative, active defense measures.