2023-09-19 21:19:01
Cyber attacks are becoming increasingly common, especially in Brazil. According to Kaspersky data released on the website IT Forum In August of this year, it was revealed that Latin America had a total of 286 million attempted phishing in the last twelve months.
Speaking specifically about Brazil, 134 million phishing attempts were recorded in the period evaluated. Between 2021 and 2022, there were 25 million attack attempts, which represents an increase of 436% when comparing the two periods.
Another point is that the most common phishing attacks still involve the use of e-mail. In the last twelve months, it was recorded that 42.8% of these attempts are related to messages, including those sent by email, from malicious people and groups posing as a bank or payment system.
It is worth remembering that phishing emails generally use formatting and other visual elements similar to those from legitimate senders. As a consequence, clicking on a link present in these messages may result in the theft of personal data, banking information and passwords important.
How to protect yourself from phishing attempts?
A HostGatora company specializing in hosting and domain services, published on its blog an interview with Igor de Andrade, a specialist in digital security company, to give some tips on how to protect yourself from phishing attacks. The first is to pay attention to the content of emails.
“Knowing that attacks that affect most of the general population arrive via email, an important tip is to validate the emails you receive, whether they are reliable, confirm the sender and whether the company mentioned uses emails for that offer,” explained Andrade.
Another point commented by the digital security specialist is that email is unlikely to cease to be the focus of phishing actions, as it does not require much investment for this practice.
“O [método] Even more popular is email, as the cost to the malicious person is low. Sometimes with a simple vulnerability, it can trigger emails with social engineering in its messages: a click that installs a keylogger (application that records keystrokes) or a malware/botnet and turns the victim’s machine into a zombie to a network that will later be used by the malicious party”, concluded Andrade.
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