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How to Protect against Phishing Attacks that Follow Natural Disasters

How to Protect against Phishing Attacks that Follow Natural Disasters

Created: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - 16:30
Categories:
Cybersecurity, Natural Disasters

Recent natural disasters have shown that cyber threat actors are still attempting to exploit the charitable inclinations of people following these adverse events for their financial gain. A common ploy is a phishing email that pretends to promote the relief effort, with the intent of enticing the victim into credential theft or endpoint infection. Cybersecurity firm Cofense Intelligence, which claims to have analyzed much of this activity, provides an example of a campaign executed in the aftermath of the hurricanes that recently impacted Hawaii. It uses this example to highlight ways to identify phishing attempts, helping potential, future targets from becoming victims. Cofense.