Phishing Emails Unmasked : What You Need To Know To Stay Safe

Uncovering Phishing Attacks

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Phishing is a type of cyber attack where attackers attempt to deceive individuals and trick them into revealing their sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords, credit card numbers, or other personal data.

The goal of phishing is to convince the recipient to take a specific action, such as clicking on a malicious link, downloading a harmful attachment, or providing their personal information by posing as a legitimate entity.

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Why are Phishing attacks so successful?

Phishing attacks often exploit human psychology, relying on tactics like urgency, fear, curiosity, or social engineering to manipulate the victim into revealing confidential data and that’s how the phishing attackers get the desired results.

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Phishing Email Indicators

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How does AI detects phishing emails?

• Monitor the  anomalies and warning Signals

• Analyze the message context, sender, recipient, subject line, data and attachments, location, and time

• Understand the email pattern and behavior

• Based on the results make a decision on whether to send or block the email

• Monitor the trending malicious IOCs and block them

How to prevent from Phishing Attack

• Phishing awareness and training campaigns

• Educate employees

• Strength your password policy and configure MFA

• Configure the email security and set up the advanced phishing prevention rules

• If a user receives an unexpected email, report it to the IT OR Security team

• Enable antivirus and patch your software regularly 

• Don’t be tempted by website pop-ups or schemes

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References

“Beware of Phishing Scams - Tech Networks of Boston.” Tech Networks of Boston, 25 May 2023, techboston.com/ever-evolving-phishing-scams-think-click.

Ekta. “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Detecting Phishing Attacks.” Identity Management Solution & MSSP Company, Jan. 2023, sennovate.com/the-role-of-artificial-intelligence-in-detecting-phishing-attacks.

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