In today’s digital world, Email has become the most lucrative channel for cyber crooks to make money. And that’s because it is very simple to gain financial assistance by acquiring someone else’s monetary and personal data via emails.
A survey conducted recently says that 57% of respondents admitted that their company has experienced a malicious attack in the past 12 months. And over 12% of them admit that their business could experience the risk soon.
In most cases of email malicious attacks, hackers not only access personal data from emails but also succeed in intruding malware on the device or into the business network which latest paves way for the hackers to steal further secret data of a company.
Security experts Fred Marshall says that the primary drive for the hackers is to find sensitive info to use it for blackmail, identity fraud or access to financial accounts. To do so, the cyber crooks target individuals or organizations either arbitrarily or for personal motivations like targeting someone like CEO who is believed to grant them the greatest financial gain.
Some Security experts from ESET say that every organization is at risk of being cyber attacked. But from the past two years, most of the headlines on cybersecurity breaches were reported to companies operating in healthcare, human resource, and real estate industries.
How to Prevent Such Attacks?
- Practicing qualitative cyber hygiene: Better to use company email accounts as they are loaded with security features on a default note. The next thing is to make your network private by isolating your servers with firewalls and avoiding public Wi-Fi.
- By Implementing 2F authentication and carefully choosing passwords might also help.
- And the last but not the least is to generate separate usernames and passwords for all accounts and avoid using individual names or parts of the name at any cost to create usernames.
- Educating the workforce on the latest happenings in the cyber landscape will also help
- Encrypting data and securing the networks with automated threat detection software will surely help.
- Overall, being proactive rather than reactive will help you secure yourself from security breaches.
