Week 1 – Email Phishing

What is?

Cyber-criminals use phishing (a form of social engineering) to gather credentials and other information about you to either attack your accounts or service provider. A spear phish attack is a sophisticated attack in which the bad actor researches your institution (in this case IÉSEG) and uses that information to imitate their communications and trick you into providing sensitive information.

Tips:

How to detect a Phishing Email ?

  • The sender of that email may not be legitimate
  • Impersonal greetings should be a red flag
  • That it is important to notice grammatical and stylistic errors
  • It is important to check the link destination
  • Emails demanding “immediate action” are probably scams
  • Logos and trademarks look real does not mean they are legitimate

Take Test

Click the image of the email you think is real

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What to do if I gave my login/password

Don’t panic !

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