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Phishing Awareness: 5 Tips To Help You Understand Phishing Emails

What is phishing?

Phishing is an attempt that aims at manipulating you into thinking a legitimate organisation is demanding information from you. These demands can seem safe on the surface or may seem to come from a valid source. These scams require you to reply to an email, respond to a request on the phone, or click on a link to a phishing website.

When phishing attempts launched by email, they often give clear signs that the request is not legitimate. Links in email to fake pages often take you to a website that look very similar to the legitimate service. This services may vary depend upon cyber criminals research on you, such as banks, e-wallet accounts, email and social networking accounts. Sometimes, cybercriminals phishing emails to multiple addresses randomly in hope that one answer will be enough. However, sometimes phishing attacks targets specific individuals which is called spear phishing.

Phishing awareness: 5 tips to help you understand phishing emails

Online forgery is a very broad topic with many methods such as theft of credit card, seizure of banking credentials, hacking of social media accounts, and the implementing malware on computer systems. Email phishing is a way of doing this.

There are some tips that help you understand phishing emails and develop your phishing awareness:

Fake URL
the URL in a phishing message in your inbox may seen perfectly legitimate. However, if you put your mouse over the URL without clicking it, you can see the redirection page (hyperlinked address). If the URL  address in your inbox is different from the address hyperlinked, this is will be a phishing email.

Domain name
In phishing emails, cybercriminals use different domain names from the legitimate source. When you look at the last part of a domain name, you can see the domain is different from the original. For instance, while the domain name www.keepnetlabs.com the original name of the page, www.keepnetlabs.pearlyn.com  would be the fake address.

Poor spelling and grammar
A message with poor grammar or spelling mistakes will probably be a phishing scam.  Institutional messages are usually reviewed, and one cannot find any spelling, grammar mistakes.

Personal information
An official institution never demands your password, credit card number, or the answer to a security question on email. Beware of such messages.

Beware of the message content
If you get a message informing you that you have won a lottery, you have never bought, it then is a scam. Also, if the message makes unrealistic threats, or demands money, it will be a scam.

Avoid phishing scams

• Never hand over your credentials such as passwords, and sensitive information like bank account numbers etc.
• Do not click on the link in emails, instead, type down the address on your browser.
• Avoid suspicious email attachments or links. If necessary, verify the sender.
• Check the web address any private information Find ‘https://’ and the padlock icon in the address.
• Update your entire system, and use an updated antivirus solution.
• Regularly run phishing simulation tests.

Find out which employees are much likely to fall a victim to phishing attacks using our phishing awareness security test tool

Due to the nature of phishing, your colleagues and employees have become the weak link in your cybersecurity.

Our industry-leading Phishing awareness security test tool allows you to test and quantify that human vulnerability safely and proactively by sending benign phishing attacks to your team, tracking their actions and reporting back to you.

We don’t stop there, our Phishing awareness security test tool is fully-integrated with our Awareness Educator to automatically place employees who are caught by our phishing simulations onto appropriate e-learning courses to improve their vigilance to genuine phishing attacks

Phishing Awareness Test Security Tool

Phishing awareness test software – No matter how secure your infrastructure is,  the weakest link in your security chain is your employees, because they can easily be hacked.

Using phishing techniques, it is simple to impersonate people acquainted, and get the information needed. Thus, traditional phishing awareness security solutions are not enough to reduce these attacks.

Phishing awareness security tests are effective to see vulnerability and built mechanisms to businesses to fight against attack vectors, such as spear-phishing attacks.

Fake email/phishing example used in Keepnet Phishing Awareness Test software

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Keepnet Labs phishing security test software, phishing simulator, is a cost-effective and influential way of executing simulated phishing test and fake attacks. Keepnet Labs phishing security test software, phishing simulator can test your employees’ behaviour against phishing attacks.

Phishing simulator enables custom phishing templates that were built by security experts. Also,  you can select or create the scenarios to be used in your phishing security test.