{"id":7316,"date":"2023-07-12T14:13:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.faster.cz\/uncategorized\/kyberneticka-bezpecnost-email-phishing-1-5\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T11:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T09:27:37","slug":"cyber-security-email-phishing-1-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faster.cz\/en\/news\/blog\/cyber-security-email-phishing-1-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyber Security: Email phishing (1\/5)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There is perhaps no company that is not susceptible to a massive phishing attack.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Statistics record more than 80% of victims of this fraudulent behaviour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Email phishing<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

is one of the 5 most common types of these attacks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s going on? An attacker registers a fake domain<\/strong> that is very similar to the real organization and overwhelms the network with requests. Domain names are often made up of hyphens to trick the eye of less astute users.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are also cases where a scammer creates a domain of a legitimate<\/strong> organization, from which he sends the user an email pretending to be a real one from the company’s technical or customer support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emails usually create a sense of urgency<\/strong>, scare users with password reset requests<\/strong>, tempt with limited offers<\/strong> and have a lot of spelling or grammatical errors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The goal is always to encourage as many victims as possible to think irrationally so that the attacker can obtain and misuse their personal data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Specific recommendations:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n