The email threats that are the talk of the town are;

Malware:

Malware attacks are one step ahead of trojans that are designed to confiscate funds when a person accesses their bank account. Malware have improvised to a point where they are capable of stealing credentials, manage cryptocurrencies and could also select the payload to set-off based on the geographical location of the user’s system. Malware email attacks works when the specific target opens the email and clicks on the link or an attachment typing their credentials without realizing the consequences. The attack becomes a successful one when the user becomes a bait.

Spoofing:

Spoofing mainly occurs when a cybercriminal could benefit from online theft. Any company which manages transactions online falls under the category. The cyber intruders would duplicate/spoof your company’s domain and interact with the customers and gain access to the sensitive data. The hackers would create a lookalike domain of the one they target in order to seem legit. These lookalike domains are a part of their covert act to make the receiver believe that they are legit. Only because the email protocols do not have effective mechanisms to authenticate the email addresses, the hackers use the similar domains and addresses.

Man-in-the-middle:

As the name suggests, the cyber intruders put themselves in between the user and an application or a service. The hacker pretends to be the user and manipulates the emails or steals information and indulges in fraudulent activities and the user wouldn’t be aware of it.

Whaling:

Whaling is a hacking method that focuses mainly on the CEO of an organization. It is a type of social engineering where the intruder sends an email to the financial head of an organization morphing as though the email is being sent from the CEO. Hence, the hacker ends up benefiting from the online payment which is being performed by the financial head without realizing it is a fraudster who is behind all this.

Spam:

Spam is a bigger challenge to every organization. Spam is used to deliver ransomware and malware. Eradicating spam could be useful to make sure the organization is less exposed to ransomware attacks and malware attacks.

Key loggers:

Key loggers is a hacking methodology used to obtain user ID’s and passwords. The hackers use email to lure the user to causally click on harmful links to gain access. Key loggers record the keyboard actions of a user. Key logger method is used for identity theft and intellectual property thefts.

“Shield your business from any sort of compromise.”

In order to keep your business safe from any kind of cyber threats, the precautionary measures are mandatory. Every business is a liability and size of the organization doesn’t matter always. It is our priority to be on-guard and shield ourselves.