Phishing is a cybercrime in which a target is contacted by email, call, or text message by someone posing as a legitimate institution to lure the target into providing sensitive data like personal information including banking and credit card details, passwords, etc. This information is then used to access important accounts which can then lead to identity theft and financial loss.
Do you really know from whom that email came from?
Email spoofing is a forgery of an email that spammers and identity thieves use to baffle and deceive people. The concept is that if an email seems to have originated from a legitimate or recognized sender, the aim of the phishing mail will probable to fall for deception.
Spammers have been spoofing email addresses for quite a while now. In yester years, they used to get contact records from malware-infected PCs. Today's data thieves choose their targets carefully and phish them with messages that appear as though they originated from companions, reliable sources, or even their own record.
In case you have seen the email account setup in your email customers, you will see that the active server dependably contain SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol). Each client and mail providers on the Internet utilize SMTP to send mails. The protocol is, be that as it may, exploitable. It is the reason you can't execute all spam at the passage. The protocol was last refreshed in the year 2008 but then does not incorporate filters to differentiate original email headers from tampered headers.
When you send an email utilizing webmail and email clients, the webmail or client append a header to the email, so the receiver webmail and client know the way it made a trip to achieve the recipient. These headers can easily be exploited and edited manually.
In the event that you are considering how anybody can send email utilizing your email ID, it takes just a little alteration to these headers to make it show that the email originated from your email ID. Presently, if you receive an email from your own email ID, you will get inquisitive or stress if the ID is imperiled. While it is better to keep the password changing, in most cases, it may be just email spoofing.
Anti-Email spoofing Techniques
There's no filtering through reality: You have to secure your organization's email. The rise of junk mail has normally reflected the rise of the web. The facts demonstrate that anti-spam methods (anti email spoofing) techniques have developed in advancement, filtering out more undesirable messages.
Spam email is as old as the web, and its development has kept pace with the web’s explosion in popularity. Thus, enter three (genuinely) new tools that are taking the battle against spam messages: DKIM, DMARC and SPF.
How Does SPF Work?
How does DKIM work?
Finally, the result of the DKIM header check reveals if a message is real or fake.
How does DMARC work?
In 2021, 83% of organizations reported phishing attacks, 8% more than the attacks reported in 2020. The number of unique phishing websites was estimated to be around 214,345 last year, and since the beginning of 2020, the number of phishing attacks has doubled. Roughly 90% of data breaches occur on account of phishing.
An alarming number of users can’t identify a sophisticated phishing email.
organizations suffered phishing attacks.
of the phishing attacks involved email domain spoofing.
of phishing messages were opened by the employees.
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Effectively track various phases of the campaign namely "Email Sent", "Email Open", "Phishing URL Clicked", "Got Phished", "Incident Reported" and "Awareness Taken"
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Mask/avoid sensitive information from being captured from the target users and avoid potential privacy concerns
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