WHAT IS EMAIL BOMBARDMENT?

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An email bombing is an attack on your inbox that involves sending massive amounts of messages to it. Sometimes these messages are incomprehensible. But more often, they will be confirmation emails for newsletters and subscriptions. Thus, in the latter case, the attacker uses a script to search for forums and newsletters on the internet. Then they sign up for an account with your email address. Each will send you a confirmation email, asking you to confirm your address. Also, this process is repeated on as many unprotected sites as the script can find. The term Email Bombing or Email Bombing; it can also refer to flooding an email server with too many emails. In an attempt to overwhelm the server and disable it. But that's not the goal here; it would be a challenge to cut down on the modern email accounts used. Meanwhile, Google or Microsoft email servers, anyway. So instead of a denial of service (DOS) attack; against the email servers you are using. Also, the flood of messages
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HOW TO DO WORK FROM HOME SAFELY WITHOUT GETTING MISLEADED BY FRAUDS?

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Phishing remains the preferred method of cybercrime. According to the 2019 Phishing and Fraud Report, carried out by the F5 Networks research center, in the United States, phishing represents 21% of the methods used by attackers because it is easy and it works.

Attackers don't have to worry about hacking into a firewall, finding a zero-day exploit, cracking an encryption; the hardest part is slipping a good trick into the email to get people to click and create a fake site to land on.

hackers taking your information

And to make the deception more effective, the malicious sites to which the emails are redirected are usually copycats of popular brands or platforms.

How to avoid being misled by fraud while working from home or simply while being distracted by current events?

Especially during fast-paced and uncertain events, criminals count on distractions. They are taking advantage of it to sneak into a scam. Whether it's leveraging the increased volume of online shopping, the increased use of online education and 'meeting' software, or the increased need for pandemic information and critical infrastructure, attackers may be seeing results.

We have seen scams related to vaccine scheduling, hospital systems locked with ransomware, and a DDoS attack against Health Departments.

While most organizations have systems in place to detect and quarantine such email scams, monitoring them will make them even more effective. However, these systems can never be 100% perfect, and you can find cybercrime scams through other channels, such as your personal email accounts

In this regard, there is information on the largest number of organized online fraud schemes as a result of COVID-19, and the security measures that an organization can take to not fall so easily into the clutches of phishing:

Check the sender's email address.

• Click on the return address and verify that it is from a reliable source.

Think twice before clicking on the links or downloading attachments.

• Be careful opening email attachments and / or clicking on email links or links in text messages from unknown sources.

• Be sure to check the domains that are linked, to make sure they are trustworthy and familiar domains.

• Make sure to avoid using or clicking on shortened URLs, such as those from services like Bit.ly, as these hide the real target website.

• If you clicked the link or downloaded an attachment, please do not provide any information on the website and the opening.

Don't click on links within suspicious emails or text messages.

• If you receive an email or text message asking you to log into an online account through a link provided, instead of clicking the link, open a browser and go directly to the company's website.

View trusted sources and websites.

• Beware of malicious or compromised websites. The initial (domain) part of a website address should represent the company that owns the site you are visiting.

Check the domain for misspellings.

• Sites that aggressively open pop-ups and display deceptive buttons often entice users to accept content through constant pop-ups.

Keep your software up to date.

• Download the latest version of your web browsers and applications and keep updated antivirus.

• This also applies to home computers. Keeping the operating system and third-party applications up-to-date is an important action to keep your computer safe.

Protect your personal information.

• When you need to provide personal information, whether in a web form, email, text message, or phone message, think about why someone needs it and whether you can really trust the request.

 From the web, stick with sites that use encryption to protect your information.

 Lastly, look for https at the beginning of the trusted web address.

 


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