Email is still the number one attack vector when it comes to cyberattacks, according to Mimecast.<\/p>\n
Cobus Benade and Mikey Molfessis, sales engineers at Mimecast, spoke about email threats at the\u00a02018 MyBroadband CyberSec Conference<\/strong><\/a>, hosted in partnership with Vodacom.<\/p>\n Benade said there have been big increases in spear-phishing and ransomware attacks in recent years, along with a large jump in impersonation attack losses.<\/p>\n The reason for the increases is the sophisticated means attackers use to trick individuals into clicking on malicious links or entering their credentials into compromised websites.<\/p>\n This includes sites which are fake versions of well-known platforms – like Facebook.<\/p>\n Fake Facebook pages and similar attack sites can use elongated URLs and the look-and-feel of the pages they imitate, which make for convincing replicas – particularly when viewed on a mobile device, said\u00a0Benade.<\/p>\n Alternatively, attackers can set up punycode domains which use encoding to convert Unicode characters to ASCII. This can let an attack site’s domain masquerade as a legitimate platform’s domain.<\/p>\n Fortunately, there are systems which can protect users against these sites.<\/p>\n This includes software which secures email gateways from the attack methods used above.<\/p>\n End-users must also be educated to look at the URL address of a site in their browser, not just the appearance of the site, to determine whether it is legitimate.<\/p>\n The advice from Mimecast comes at a time when email users are targeted on a daily basis by spammers and malicious actors.<\/p>\n Criminals also move quickly to update their attack methods to make them as effective as possible. This was seen recently when soon after Absa launched its new branding, phishing attacks<\/strong><\/a> with Absa’s new logo were put into circulation.<\/p>\n Email is still the number one attack vector when it comes to cyberattacks, according to Mimecast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":272963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[12213],"class_list":["post-272961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-mimecast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273037,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272961\/revisions\/273037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Protecting your gateways<\/h3>\n
Now read:\u00a0Cyber hygiene at companies is an absolute necessity \u2013 Vodacom<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"