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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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRADITIONAL ANTIVIRUS AND NEW GENERATION ANTIVIRUS

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Threats are constantly evolving, and endpoints are the preferred target for attackers to gain access to systems and wreak havoc on organizations.

Traditional and New Generation Antivirus
In the 80's, traditional Antivirus programs detected threats and infected files using databases with signatures to disinfect infected files. At present, this old form of protection is still maintained, however this type of protection has lost effectiveness due to the sophistication of malware and its intensive growth and development, which is why signature-based protection is it has become ineffective, as well as wreaking havoc on team performance.

Much has been said about the new protection solutions from NextGeneration, but how are they different from traditional AV solutions?

There are many points or you can say similarities and differences are mention here

Exploit Detection Techniques:

This type of detection method allows stopping and blocking processes that are trying to exploit certain vulnerabilities in the computer's systems, in order to gain access and take control of the computer, allowing the attacker to have access to the network and the file system of the infected computer, managing to download more malware.

Machine Learning:

These types of methods allow the detection and prevention of known and unknown threats, since through learning without human intervention, they observe the behavior of suspicious files within test environments, and thus be able to have an accurate verdict of the threat.

EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response):

These types of methods obtain information directly from the endpoint such as logs, process behavior in order to know what happened after an infection, so it provides detailed information to the administrator.

Application Whitelisting:

This type of method allows you to validate and control the processes that are authorized to run on the endpoint's operating system. Therefore, protection is reinforced by only allowing the execution of pre-authorized processes, reinforcing the Security of the host involved.

That is why the Next Generation Antivirus, came to improve the Security of our endpoints and reinforce one of the most attacked fronts today.

So, it’s better to use new age antivirus that can fight with all the new viruses and threat and keep your device and information safe which cannot be done by the traditional antivirus to its fullest.

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