02/15/2019

Three Tips to Avoid Phishing Scams

Twelve percent of phishing attacks involve “VIP impersonations"

Next time you get an email from the boss, you might want to triple-check that address.

Recently, a study from the anti-phishing firm Inky [registration required] found that 12 percent of phishing attacks involved “VIP impersonations,” or messages that looked like they were from top executives at an organization—a highly targeted form of attack that turns a top executive’s name into a Trojan horse. Often, these schemes involve real-time emails from someone pretending to be a CEO who is looking to acquire information from a lower-level employee.

The result leads to direct engagement between the scammer and the victim—and to a potential loss of sensitive data.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.