Phishing
So, what is phishing?
Phishing is a method of trying to gather personal information using deceptive e-mails or websites. What makes your data so valuable? Your data is considered a resource. A resource that helps them steal your money and/ or sell your data to advertisers. As in fishing, the fish will be caught if the fisherman has good bait. There are several types of phishing: vishing (the telephone equivalent of phishing), whaling(a method to directly target important individuals within an organization), smishing(via text or SMS message), pop-up phishing, and so on.
Why people click?
People believe the sender is legitimate, so human error leads to the success of cyberattacks. Distraction is one of the main reasons people fall for phishing scams. Imagine! You have a deadline, you are stressed to finish your task, and at the same time a colleague writes to you and asks for your help. Two minutes later, you receive an email: “We’ve updated our login credential policy, please confirm your account by logging into Google Docs.”. You click quickly, don’t waste time, enter your password. And ready, you were caught 😀 Distraction is quite a common occurrence for all the remote workers. More than half of remote workers today admit they are more distracted when working from home.