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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THE MOST COMMON CYBER THREATS TODAY

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On many occasions, any computer threat is called a virus, something that is not entirely correct, since there is a specific name for each threat. In this post, we are going to find out which names are given to each of them and which can endanger not only our personal computer but also the computer network of any company.

Todays cyber threat

Taking into account that Spain is the third country in the world in terms of cyberattacks, with about 200,000 daily attacks according to the National Center for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures, it never hurts to know what the threats are.

It must be remembered that, although DDoS attacks are one of the most lethal that can exist today, there are many other threats like the ones we are going to list below.

MALWARE - They are codes designed by cybercriminals whose objective is to change the operation of any computer system, especially without the infected user noticing. They have the ability to corrupt the files that you have saved on your hard drive or even destroy certain files.

SPYWARE - This is spyware that has the ability to collect information from a computer and transmit it without the knowledge of the affected person, endangering the security of the affected computer (passwords, email accounts, bank accounts, etc.)

RANSOMWARE - For both computers and mobile phones, it is one of the fastest growing threats lately. A program locks either of these two devices with a message asking for a ransom so that the user can regain control. A ransom in Bitcoin is required so that the person or persons who have launched this threat cannot be traced.

PHISHING - It is another of the great current threats and it comes via email. Through social engineering or with websites that perfectly simulate being authentic websites, confidential information is acquired fraudulently.

TROJANS - In this case, it is a program that, when run, provides the attacker with the ability to control the infected computer remotely and often without the user's knowledge.

WORMS - They can replicate in a thousand and one different ways in our system, and cause a large number of copies of itself to be sent from our computer to many other computers by e-mail to our contacts and these to theirs, becoming a serious threat.

BACKDOOR OR BACKDOOR - Sometimes, some malicious programmers leave a backdoor in order to bypass the access security systems to be able to access the system with total comfort and without the users' knowledge.

These are just some of the threats that roam the net and that can get us in trouble if we do not pay special attention to correct behavior regarding our access to the Internet, downloading programs or applications or having good anti-malware and antivirus software. This software will help you in detecting all the viruses or threats and will keep you safe in the cyber world where cybercrime is its peak. So you and your team should have an updated antivirus software to keep your information safe.

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