Phishing Email Campaign: Mimicking and Spoofing

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About Us
iZOOlogic is an internet company dedicated to
providing niche brand protection and phishing
solutions. iZOOlogic Provides Fraud Prevention,
Anti-Phishing Solutions, Malware Protection amp
Brand Protection Solutions to protect electronic
channels from cybercrime.
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Phishing Email Campaign
Mimicking and Spoofing Another Social
Engineering Technique
Phishing attacks are a combination of different
technique in order to lead their victim to the
fake login page that they have created in order
to harvest information. These attacks wont stop,
because in this age of information there are
still those who still fall for such tricks due to
the evolution of this criminal activity.
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Phishing Attacks and How to Protect
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Must know about Phishing Attacks and How to
Protect Against Them
Lately the European Union is almost nearing its
date on implementing the General Data Protection
Regulations (GDPR) which is sure to affect
companies on how data will be handled. Therefore
prompting these affected companies into blasting
customers with email announcements regarding
changes in their privacy policies and terms of
service. Recently phishing authors targeted
Airbnb as the company announced to its users the
changes in their policies which will take effect
on 25th of May this year. What the phishing
authors did was to craft emails that are similar
to a legitimate Airbnb email blast and then send
their own version of email blast to EU based
email addresses that are possibly signed up on
Airbnb.
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Phishing Email Campaign
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Anti-Phishing Protection
The source of the potential victims email
address could have come somewhere from a leaked
database which was exposed online in the dark
web. Ironically the new data protection
regulations that were meant to protect data is
being used by the phishing author to advance the
success of its own activities. Phishing
activities are becoming more difficult to
identify, because the people behind it are
learning new ways to improve their techniques in
order to trick more people. They are getting
more sophisticated on par with how technology and
anti-phishing methods. Therefore the phishing
intelligence must also keep up and find ways to
improve awareness of the common users and
techniques to track down and eliminate sources.
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Phishing Intelligence

• Here are tips to avoid getting caught in the net
  of a phishing attempt
• Whenever reading emails or any online material,
  as much as possible do not click an in-built
  link.
• Always open websites using your browser by typing
  in the official website URL.
• There is a high chance that other companies as
  well will be targeted and be taken advantage of
  the same way Airbnb got.
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